Bauckham's "Jesus and the God of Israel," Chapter 1C (God Crucified)
This is the third part of my reading of Bauckham's first chapter of Jesus and the God of Israel. I have one more part on Bauckham's assessment of continuities and novelties between the NT and Second Temple literature. You can see my earlier posts as following: Introduction Chapter 1A (monotheism) Chapter 1B (christological monotheism) For this week, however, we will discuss the theme of “God Crucified and Divine Identity Revealed in Jesus" I must say at the outset that this has been the most interesting part of Bauckham's analysis thus far--perhaps because this is where he finally gets into the textual nitty gritty and generally avoids the over-generalizing that is so prevalent throughout the rest of the chapter. The next move in Bauckham’s argument is the shift from thinking of a preexistent Christ to the earthly Jesus and the repercussions of a suffering Jesus who shares in the unique divine identity. In this section he asserts that all NT Christology is high C...