£50.00

Jesus among the gods: Early Christology in the Greco-Roman World

Rome

Price data last checked 129 day(s) ago - refreshing...

View at Amazon

We'll watch every seller, every day. One email when your price arrives.

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

£50 today · previous high £50 · all-time low £40

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 246 days • 246 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 246 days • 7 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £48 (108 days, 43.9%)

Price range: £40 - £50

Price levels: 7 different prices over 246 days

Description

The early church, after several centuries of controversy, came to an uneasy consensus that Jesus was both fully human and fully divine. In his divinity, orthodox Christianity claimed, he shared fully in the nature of the uncreated creator God. But was this doctrinal position crafted from whole cloth in the era of the great ecumenical councils? How did earlier Christ-followers understand Jesus in light of their convictions about the one supreme deity, and in the context of a cultural milieu saturated with gods? In Jesus among the gods Michael Bird gives renewed attention to divine ontology―what a god is―in relation to literary representations of Jesus. Most studies of the origins of early Christology focus on christological titles, various functions, divine identity, and types of worship. The application of ontological categories to Jesus is normally considered something that only began to happen in the second and third centuries as the early church engaged in platonizing interpretations of Jesus. Bird argues, to the contrary, that ontological language and categories were used to describe Jesus as an eternal, true, and unbegotten deity from the earliest decades of the nascent church. Through comparison with representative authors such as Philo and Plutarch, and a comprehensive analysis of Jesus and various intermediary figures from Greco-Roman religion and ancient Judaism, Bird demonstrates how early accounts of Jesus both overlapped with and diverged from existing forms of religious expression. However Jesus resembled the various divine agents of Greco-Roman religion and Second Temple Judaism, the chorus of early Christian witnesses held Jesus to be simultaneously an agent of and an analogue with the God of Israel. Among the gods, Jesus stood in clear relief, a conviction that may have been refined over time but that belongs to the emerging heart of Christian confession.

Key Features

Jesus Among the Gods: Early Christology in the Greco-Roman World

Product type: ABIS BOOK

Brand: Baylor University Press

Product Specifications

Format: Hardcover
ASIN: 1481316753
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Ancient History & Civilisation > Rome
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 October 2022
Listed Since: 29 April 2022

Barcode

No barcode data available

Jesus among the gods: Early Christology in the Greco-Roman World

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Key Features

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

The Origin of Divine Christology: 169 (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series, Series Number 169)

The Embodied God: Seeing the Divine in Luke-Acts and the Early Church

YHWH at Patmos: Rev. 1:4 in its Hellenistic and Early Jewish Setting: Rev. 1:4 in its Hellenistic and Early Jewish Setting : Rev. 1:4 in its ... Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2. Reihe)

Jesus and Other Sons of God: Luke's Christology and Mediterranean Myth

The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings: Volume 4, Christ: Chalcedon and Beyond

Jesus and YHWH-Texts in the Synoptic Gospels (The Library of New Testament Studies)

Mythologizing Jesus: From Jewish Teacher to Epic Hero

Divine Presence as Activity and the Incarnation: Revisiting Chalcedonian Christology (Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies)

Early Church Understandings of Jesus as the Female Divine: The Scandal of the Scandal of Particularity (The Library of New Testament Studies)

Jesus' Literacy: Education and the Teacher from Galilee (Library of New Testament Studies): Scribal Culture and the Teacher from Galilee: 413 (The Library of Historical Jesus Studies)

Ni judío ni griego: El cristianismo en sus comienzos III (Estudios Bíblicos)

God's Equal: What Can We Know about Jesus' Self-Understanding?: 446 (The Library of New Testament Studies)

The Historical Christ and the Jesus of Faith: The Incarnational Narrative as History

The True Human Being: The Figure of Jesus in K.E. Logstrup's Thought (Studia Aarhusiana Neotestamentica (SANt) - Volume 004, Part): 4

Jesus and His Contemporaries: Comparative Studies

A History of the Quests for the Historical Jesus, Volume 1: From the Beginnings of Christianity to the End of World War II (1)

Mohr Siebeck Gospel Images of Jesus Christ Symposium Book

Identity and Coherence in Christology: One Person in Two Natures (Routledge Studies in Analytic and Systematic Theology)

Jesus in the Victorian Novel: Reimagining Christ (New Directions in Religion and Literature)

The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings: Volume 3, Christ: Through the Nestorian Controversy (The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings, Series Number 3)

T&T Clark Reading Jude with New Eyes - Library of NT Studies

The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings: Volume 1, God

Jesus in the Theology of Rowan Williams (T&T Clark Studies in English Theology)

Gospels, Epistles, Old Testament: The order of books according to Jesus Chri st