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DAVID T. CAPES, APRIL D. DECONICK, HELEN K. BOND, and TROY A. MILLER (eds.), Israel's God and Rebecca's Children: Christology and Community in Early Judaism and Christianity; Essays in Honor of Larry W. Hurtado and Alan F. Segal (Waco: Baylor University Press, 2007). Pp. xx + 480. $59.95.
This book contains twenty-one essays written to celebrate the friendship and scholarship of Larry Hurtado and Alan Segal. The essays are grouped into three sections. The first, "Reconceptualizing Christology and Community," offers April D. DeConick, "How We Talk about Christology Matters" (pp. 1-23); Paula Fredriksen, "Mandatory Retirement: Ideas in the Study of Christian Origins Whose Time Has Come to Go" (pp. 25-38); Richard Bauckham, "The 'Most High' God and the Nature of Early Jewish Monotheism" (pp. 39-54); Adela Yarbro Collins, '"How on Earth Did Jesus Become a God?': A Reply" (pp. 55-66); Pheme Perkins, "Resurrection and Christology: Are They Related?" (pp. 67-75); and Eldon Jay Epp, "Are Early New Testament Manuscripts Truly Abundant?" (pp. 77-117).
The second section, "Studies in Christology," contains Maurice Casey, "Prophetic Identity and Conflict in the Historic Ministry of Jesus" (pp. 121-34); David B. Capes, "Pauline Exegesis and the Incarnate...