Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part One Synthesis -- Chapter One The Development of Christology in the First 100 Years: A Modest Proposal -- Part Two Building Blocks -- Chapter Two The Problem of Pre-Existence in Philippians 2:6-11 (1967) -- Chapter Three The Concept of Immortals in Mediterranean Antiquity (1975) -- Chapter Four The Myth of a Descending-Ascending Redeemer in Mediterranean Antiquity (1976) -- Chapter Five The Gospel and the Gospels (1979) -- Chapter Six Expository Article: Luke 1:26-31 (1985) -- Chapter Seven 'And the Word Became Flesh': When? (1993) -- Chapter Eight The Christology of the Apocalypse (1999) -- Chapter Nine Miraculous Conceptions and Births in Mediterranean Antiquity (2006) -- Bibliography -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Ancient Sources -- Subject Index.

Entering the debate about the development of Christology among Jesus' earliest followers, this volume critiques both the traditional evolutionary view that posited an elementary early Jewish Christology that developed in complexity as it was increasingly Hellenized and the more recent attempt to see a full-orbed Christology both as early and as Jewish, not Hellenistic, in its categories. It contends that during the first 100 years Jesus' followers employed four models from their milieu, Jewish and Greco-Roman, both to understand and to communicate their Christologies. These models were appropriated because they were appropriate vehicles for expressing the impact of Jesus on them, past, present, and future.

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