Common Denominator

I am working through a section of a chapter that first presents various proposals for entities the Jews might have worshiped in some way in ...

I'd be interested in reactions to these paragraphs. Basically, I accept the logic of creational and eschatological formulations of God...

Trying to write a chapter on "Hebrews and Christology" for a book I'm under contract for: A New Perspective on Hebrews . Let...

I am working through Bart Ehrman's,  How Jesus Became God ,  on Mondays.  Here are the posts so far: Introduction 1. Divine Humans in...

I'm glad to call both of these gentlemen my friends.  James McGrath has just reviewed Tom McCall's new book, Which Trinity? Whose M...

From Life after Death: A History of the Afterlife in Western Religion , p.179. Segal is a genius, and the usual idiosyncratic professor. I ...

Blogging raises a number of issues for me. Does it hinder my put out in terms of permanent writing? Does it keep me from getting work or fam...

I'm behind on Calvin, but read this today: "Here we must more carefully attend to those subtleties with which superstition disports...

This morning I read through David Capes' "YHWH Texts and Monotheism in Paul's Christology," which is in Early Jewish and C...

After years of some general hunches and vague feelings, I believe I am finally ready to formulate a positioned statement on what I think Jew...

I thought I would kill a couple birds with one stone by quoting some Artapanus and reflecting briefly on what his work might imply about Jew...

OK, I changed my mind. I feel like I need to do a little more of James D. G. Dunn's, The Partings of the Ways . Chapter 11 is entitled...

For some time, New Testament scholarship has debated the question of when the earliest Christians worshipped Jesus and what exactly that mig...

Chapter 10 of James D. G. Dunn's, The Partings of the Ways is "One God, One Lord," and it asks whether or not Paul's writ...

I've skipped three chapters in my review of James D. G. Dunn's The Partings of the Ways because the summer is nearly gone and there...

Chapter 1 of Larry Hurtado's Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity is entitled "Forces and Factors." ...

Larry Hurtado is known principally for one thing in the guild of biblical studies, namely, his work on the origins of the worship of Jesus a...

Today I want to reflect on a paper Richard Bauckham gave at a conference in St. Andrews in 1998: "The Throne of God and the Worship of ...

Hi Ken, Interesting stuff. I've a great interest in these questions and would appreciate your thoughts. As I've studied the various ...