I have thoroughly enjoyed reading Joshua Jipp’s new book on Pauline Christology: ). It is a wide-ranging study, full of creative new interpretative suggestions and it overlaps at one critical point with the argument I develop in Jesus Monotheism. The standard modern scholarly view has been that Paul’s word “Christos” is simply a personal name for… Read more »
Category: David Litwa
On David Litwa’s Iesus Deus
David Litwa has written an important book on the relationship between Greco-Roman traditions and Christological material in early Christian texts (in the New Testament and beyond). . It is a thoroughly enjoyable, informative and stimulating read, with fresh ideas that should be of interest to anyone studying the earliest beliefs about Jesus. In essence, Litwa argues that… Read more »