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Chapter 2. Unconvincing Objections and Fresh Support for the Emerging Consensus
Some (e.g. A. Y. Collins, J. D. G. Dunn and J. F. McGrath) have raised objections to the central claims of the emerging consensus and remain unconvinced. This chapter focuses on those aspects of the opposing arguments to which a response defending the emerging consensus can easily be made. It also introduces some new evidence, from an analysis of the numerical structure of 1 Cor 8:6, that provides further support for the claim that the earliest Palestinian Christian community believed the one God of biblical faith had now revealed himself as one God in two persons.
Chapter 4. The Similitudes of Enoch (1 En. 3771) and a Jewish Divine Messiah
Chapter 4 investigates the possibility that, contrary to the claims of the emerging consensus, there are pre-Christian traditions surrounding a divine messiah that offer a precent for the inclusion of Jesus Christ in the divine identity and the worship of him as such. The chapter focuses primarily on the identity of the Son of Man-Messiah gure in the Similitudes of Enoch, which Bauckham sees as a partial exception to the rule that there was no pre-Christian worship of a messiah as one included within the divine identity. Following the recent work of leading scholars of the Enoch Seminar (led by Gabriele Boccaccini) on the Similitudes of Enoch it is argued that: (1) this is a pre-
Christian text that is illustrative of a wider interest in both the gure of Dan 7:13 and a transcendent, heavenly or divine messiah gure, (2) the Similitudes is a mainstream text that, a priori, is likely to have inuenced Jesus and his earliest followers in their understanding of Israels messiah. Given the obvious connections to the use of the Son of Man title in the gospels, it must have something to do with the origins of Christological monotheism. However, the Similitudes many as-yet-unanswered questions prevent clear conclusions about its formative contribution to Christological origins. In particular, it is not yet clear how its divine messianism squared with the shape of the bibles own understanding of the divine identity and Gods relationship to a chosen ruler (a messiah or son of man gure).
there are reasons to think that the story was known to and echoed by the author of Daniel in Dan 27.
Proposition 11: In the rst instance, the worship of the Lord Jesus Christ (Christ devotion) arises from the belief that he was Israels true eschatological high priest, the true image-idol of God. Proposition 12: Jesus' divine identity in the gospels is shocking to rst century Jews because he claims the full divine identity of the high priest even though he is of royal lineage. Proposition 13: The divine identity of Jesus is a matter of his deeds so, on analogy to the identity of the ruler in the Greco-Roman Ruler Cult, he is a person and God is now two (Christological monotheism). Proposition 14: An Historical Jesus who claimed to be the Israels One God incarnate is the necessary condition for the origin and shape of the Churchs earliest Christology.
Chapter 11. Further Explanations and Reections on the Outline of a New Paradigm
Chapter 11 closes with explanatory notes and further reections on each of the propositions that make up the new paradigm. Crispin Fletcher-Louis September 2013