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William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company 9/1/2005 Paperback or Softback New in New jacket Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity (Paperback or Softback)

ISBN10: 0802831672, ISBN13: 9780802831675, [publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.] Softcover New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 2.5
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ISBN10: 0802831672, ISBN13: 9780802831675, [publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company] Softcover New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
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ISBN10: 0802831672, ISBN13: 9780802831675, [publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This outstanding book provides an in-depth historical study of the place of Jesus in the religious life, beliefs, and worship of Christians from the beginnings of the Christian movement down to the late second century. Lord Jesus Christ is a monumental work on earliest Christian devotion to Jesus, sure to replace Wilhelm Bousset's Kyrios Christos (1913) as the standard work on the subject. Larry Hurtado, widely respected for his previous contributions to the study of the New Testament and Christian origins, offers the best view to date of how the first Christians saw and reverenced Jesus as divine. In assembling this compelling picture, Hurtado draws on a wide body of ancient sources, from Scripture and the writings of such figures as Ignatius of Antioch and Justin to apocryphal texts such as the Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of Truth. Hurtado considers such themes as early beliefs about Jesus' divine status and significance, but he also explores telling devotional practices of the time, including prayer and worship, the use of Jesus' name in exorcism, baptism and healing, ritual invocation of Jesus as 'Lord,' martyrdom, and lesser-known phenomena such as prayer postures and the curious scribal practice known today as the nomina sacra. The revealing portrait that emerges from ...
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ISBN10: 0802831672, ISBN13: 9780802831675, [publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.] Softcover
[Columbia, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2005]
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