Was Jesus of Nazareth a Monotheist? Conversation with Cultural Studies

J. Neyrey

DOI:10.1177/0146107919852270

Corpus ID: 199346299

Was Jesus of Nazareth a Monotheist? Conversation with Cultural Studies

@article{Neyrey2019WasJO,
  title={Was Jesus of Nazareth a Monotheist? Conversation with Cultural Studies},
  author={J. Neyrey},
  journal={Biblical Theology Bulletin},
  year={2019},
  volume={49},
  pages={132 - 145}
}

J. Neyrey
Published 2019
Philosophy
Biblical Theology Bulletin

Did Jesus of Nazareth, born of a woman and born under the law, confess the Shema like all other Israelites? Was he a monotheist? Although scholarship argues that there were many types of monotheism, we focus here on strict Israelite monotheism (Deut 6:4). What does Jesus have to say for himself? This article does not go over plowed ground, but seeks to add to the conversation the use of two social science models: understanding “role” and “status,” and interpreting data in terms of the… Expand

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