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Larry W. Hurtado
Larry W. Hurtado is professor emeritus of New Testament language, literature, and theology at the University of Edinburgh. His books include How on Earth Did Jesus Become a God? Historical Questions about Earliest Devotion to Jesus.
What made early Christians a peculiar people?
“One second-century pagan critic of Christianity was willing to tolerate everything else about Christians if they would only worship the gods.”
Lord and God
Bart Ehrman's conclusions aren't novel to anyone familiar with historical scholarship on Christology. But those aren't the readers he has in mind.
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