Our focus at this meeting was on messianisms (including Christology) and “monotheism” (the scare quotes acknowledging the problematic nature of that term). I have used the phrase “Christology within Judaism” because on the one hand, it links to the wider efforts to situate Christian origins as a phenomenon within the Judaism of that time, and on the other hand it highlights the unhelpful historic tendency to study “Christology” (things said about Jesus) as something distinct and potentially separate from Jewish messianism in the same time period.I was a member of the Early High Christology Club. I still have my mug.
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