I have now published a summary of the argument of the four volumes of Jesus Monotheism. It’s available in a bundle along with the digital version of Volume 1 here: www.JesusMonotheism.com Enjoy. Crispin
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“The Name above all names” (Phil 2:9)
Earlier this week I presented a paper at the St Andrews Divinity School Biblical Studies Research Seminar. The paper was warmly received, several responses have helped me further strength my case and none, as far as I could tell, seriously questioned or undermined my argument. I have posted a (slightly worked up) copy of the paper on… Read more »
LXX Isaiah 40:2: “O Priests, speak to the heart of Jerusalem”
In a fine paper by Dr Alison Salvesen at the Oxford OT Seminar yesterday there was mention of a passage in the Septuagint (Greek translation of the OT) that I had not seen before. It says: O Priests, speak to the heart of Jerusalem; comfort her, because her humiliation has been fulfilled, her sin has been released,… Read more »
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 »
On Pauline Christology and the Glory of Israel’s Messiah
In my last post I offered a few thoughts on Joshua Jipp’s new book . I’ve enjoyed reading Joshua’s work ever since I came across his insightful and well written book on . (I have particularly benefited from his article on Paul’s Areopagus speech in Acts 17—published in the Journal of Biblical Literature vol. 131… Read more »
On Joshua Jipp’s Christ is King
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 »
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 »
British New Testament Conference Highlight: Andy Byers on 1 Cor 8–12
In the second chapter of Jesus Monotheism, Volume 1 I focus on the significance of 1 Cor 8:6 for the argument that “Christological monotheism” is a basic feature of Paul’s theology. There has been a dispute in recent scholarship over the interpretation of the Shema in 1 Cor 8:4–6. N. T. Wright famously argued (in… Read more »