tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637125351921336084.post7307708582547531761..comments2024-03-19T00:26:30.753-07:00Comments on The Jesus Blog: My Review of Bauckham's Jesus: A Very Short IntroductionAnthony Le Donnehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01282792648606976883noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637125351921336084.post-89217163097345414952012-12-05T16:35:53.844-08:002012-12-05T16:35:53.844-08:00I am currently reading Bauckham's, Jesus and t...I am currently reading Bauckham's, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony, and Bauckham does not divorce history from theology. In fact, he uses history and theology to support one another. There is a tendency to divorce history and theology since the Enlightenment; just as First Principles have been divorced from Philosophy. Unfortunately, that cannot never happen. The Bible is one genre that is 100 percent history and 100 percent theology; just like Jesus (fully human and fully God). To divorce history from theology and theology from history in the Bible is to destroy all.Rev. Bryant J. Williams IIIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02421896357347909359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637125351921336084.post-58738521136660524852012-12-04T19:09:06.696-08:002012-12-04T19:09:06.696-08:00I found it interesting when reading a small segmen...I found it interesting when reading a small segment of Bauckham's work, when he says that if it was not for the resurrection Jesus would be considered another failed Messiah (pg. 109). There are so many other messengers before Jesus who were rejected and murdered because they went against the social regime of their time. So why was it that Jesus was more special than the others? I don't have a specific answer, but I think it was all part of the "plan." Also as I was reading this segment, I wondered what branch of religion would be the most prevalent today? I would like to open this question up to anyone who has an opinion.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637125351921336084.post-54280288287912239702012-12-04T09:55:27.678-08:002012-12-04T09:55:27.678-08:00ali, one thing to keep in mind is that the "s...ali, one thing to keep in mind is that the "strictness" of Jewish monotheism in the 1st century is a topic of lively debate these days! An excellent resource on this topic is Larry Hurtado. I think the mainstream view is that the monotheism of Jews in the 1st century included belief in many divine or supernatural beings, some of whom had something like "free will" and functioned something like lesser gods. A good example is Enoch from the book of Genesis, who in the Jewish imagination was "taken up" by God without having died, and who was seen as playing a role in God's court. <br /><br />It is possible that the Christian understanding of Jesus after his death began with a notion that Jesus was similar to Enoch, in which case the Christian understanding would have been compatible with Jewish monotheism. <br /><br />If you're very brave, you can also look at recent work of Daniel Boyarin, who argues that 1st century Judaism contained a sort of binitarianism. I personally agree more with Hurtado and less with Boyarin, but Boyarin argues in an interesting way that there's not such a wide gulf between 1st century Jewish monotheism and early Christian christology.Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08976868079076669453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8637125351921336084.post-22082873289408601332012-12-04T05:53:33.647-08:002012-12-04T05:53:33.647-08:00Is Prof. Bauckham of the view that Jesus claimed d...Is Prof. Bauckham of the view that Jesus claimed divinity or identified himself as the God of Israel? or associated himself with God ?<br /><br />I find it rather confusing after reading his books that at one hand he says early Christians were strict monotheist like Jews but at the same time used to include Jesus in the Shema and used to worship him !! how is that possible ?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04158260878737242710noreply@blogger.com