I have just received my copy of the proceedings of a conference on Enoch literature and contemporary theology at the University of Gloucestershire, for which I provided an essay on the Similitudes of Enoch (). The Similitudes of Enoch (1 Enoch 37–71) is one of the most difficult and contentious of the texts that scholars… Read more »
Category: James D. G. Dunn
Wesley Hill on Paul and the Trinity
Wesley Hill has written an important book about Paul’s theology, developing the work of his doctoral supervisor Professor Francis Watson (of Durham University, UK), on some ways in which trinitarian theology us understand the shape of Paul’s language about God the Father, Jesus Christ and the Spirit: . Sadly I came to it after completing volume 1 of… Read more »
A couple of recent blog reviews of Jesus Monotheism Volume 1
I am grateful for a couple of blog posts dedicated to Jesus Monotheism 1 that have appeared in recent weeks. One by Derek Rishmawy is entirely fair and appreciative. The other, at The Two Cities site, is by Max Botner at St Andrews. It is also appreciative, though a little more probing. He makes some valuable observations on… Read more »
Recent progress in scholarship on the origins of NT Christology
In the first chapter of my Jesus Monotheism Volume 1 I describe the most important features of the emerging consensus view that very early in the history of the Christian movement the risen and exalted Jesus was accorded a divine identity. I could not possibly have started Jesus Monotheism with this chapter if I had written a similar… Read more »