Chapter 1. Divine Agency in Ancient Jewish Monotheism; Divine agency speculation; The shape of postexilic Jewish religious devotion; Angelology and monotheismMonotheism and other divine agents; Summary -- Chapter 2. Personified Divine Attributes as Divine Agents; Personified divine attributes; The language of divine agency -- Chapter 3 Exalted Patriarchs as Divine Agents; Enoch speculations; Exalted Moses traditions; Other exalted patriarchs; Exalted patriarchs and Jewish religious devotion -- Chapter 4 Principal Angels; Angelology and Christology in previous studies; Principal angels in ancient Judaism; Chief angels and God; Summary -- Chapter 5 The Early Christian Mutation; Jesus as God's chief agent; The Christian mutation; Causes of the Christian mutationSummary; Conclusions; Epilogue; The setting of One God, One Lord; Major results; Ongoing debate; Conclusion
Summary
Larry Hurtado's One God, One Lord has been described as 'one of the most important and provocative Christologies of all time' (Alan F. Segal). The book has taken its place among works on Jesus as one consistently cited, consistently read, and consistently examined in scholarly discourse. Hurtado examines the early cultic devotion to Jesus through a range of Jewish sources. Hurtado outlines an early 'high' Christological theology, showing how the Christ of faith emerges from monotheistic Judaism. The book has already found a home on the shelves of many in its two previous editions. In this ne
