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In Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity, Matthew V. Novenson brings together thirteen state-of-the-art essays by leading scholars on the various ways ancient Jewish, Christian, and classical writers conceive of God, Christ, Wisdom, the demiurge, angels, foreign gods, and other divine beings. In particular, the book revisits the “early high Christology” debates of the 1990s, identifying the lasting contributions thereof as well as the lingering difficulties and new, emerging questions from the last thirty years of research. The essays in this book probe the much-touted but under-theorized distinctions between monotheism and polytheism, Judaism and Hellenism, Christianity and paganism. They show how what we call monotheism and Christology fit within the Greco-Roman world of which they are part. Contributors are Richard Bauckham, Jan N. Bremmer, David B. Capes, April D. DeConick, Paula Fredriksen, Jörg Frey, Charles A. Gieschen, Larry W. Hurtado, Carey C. Newman, Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr, Matthew V. Novenson, Pheme Perkins.

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“A short review cannot do justice to these complex and fully argued essays. Each one raises questions, which cannot be enumerated here. Suffice it to say that these are excellent discussions leading to substantial, sometimes provocative, conclusions, some more persuasive than others […] Serious students of early Christology will be grateful for the health of this ongoing discussion reflected in these essays.” – Kent E. Brower, Nazarene Theological College, in: Journal for the Study of the New Testament Booklist 2022 44.5, August 2022.

""A short review cannot do justice to these complex and fully argued essays. Each one raises questions, which cannot be enumerated here. Suffice it to say that these are excellent discussions leading to substantial, sometimes provocative, conclusions, some more persuasive than others […] Serious students of early Christology will be grateful for the health of this ongoing discussion reflected in these essays."" – Kent E. Brower, Nazarene Theological College, in: Journal for the Study of the New Testament Booklist 2022 44.5, August 2022

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Matthew V. Novenson, PhD (2010), Princeton Theological Seminary, is Senior Lecturer in New Testament and Christian Origins at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author, most recently, of The Grammar of Messianism (OUP, 2017).

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