Messianic High Christology by Ruben A. Buhner HARDBACK 9781481315401

Messianic High ChristologyNew Testament Variants of Second Temple Judaism\nAuthor(s): Ruben A. Bhner\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Baylor University Press, United States\nImprint: Baylor University Press\nISBN-13: 9781481315401, 978-1481315401\nSynopsis\nThe depiction of Christ as divine is often assumed to be the categorical difference between early Jewish messianism and New Testament Christology. Despite the prolific accomplishments of recent scholarship on Second Temple messianism and on the origin and development of \""high\"" Christology, research has largely treated these as two separate lines of inquiry. As an unintended result, earliest Christianity appears not as an organic outgrowth of ancient Judaism, but as something of an anomaly. Ruben A. Bhner calls this line of thinking into question in Messianic High Christology.\n\nThrough a curated set of exegetical comparisons, each between a christological text and one or two messianic texts, Bhner reveals to what extent Second Te.