The "most high" god and the nature of early jewish monotheism

Israel's God and Rebecca's Children: Christology and Community in Early Judaism and Christianity

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 39-53

  Bauckham, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

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References (34)

1. Hurtado, One God, One Lord;
2. Segal, Two Powers in Heaven.
3. William Horbury, "Jewish and Christian Monotheism in the Herodian Age," in Stuckenbruck and North, Early Jewish, 16-44.
4. Horbury, "Jewish," 17.
5. E.g. Peter Hayman, "Monotheism-A Misused Word in Jewish Studies?" JJS 412 (1991): 1-15;
6. Michael Mach, "Concepts of Jewish Monotheism during the Hellenistic Period," in The Jewish Roots of Christological Monotheism: Papers from the St. Andrews Conference on the Historical Origins of the Worship of Jesus (eds. C. C. Newman, J. R. Davila, and G. S. Lewis; SJSJ 63
7. Leiden: Brill, 1999), 21-42.
8. See Martin L. West, "Towards Monotheism," in Pagan Monotheism in Late Antiquity (eds. Polymnia Athanassiadi and Michael Frede; Oxford: Clarendon, 1999), 21-40 (here 21-29
9. cf. Michael Frede, "Monotheism and Pagan Philosophy in Later Antiquity," in Athanassiadi and Frede, Pagan Monotheism, 41-67.
10. Richard Bauckham, "The Throne of God and the Worship of Jesus," in Newman, Davila, and Lewis, The Jewish Roots, 43-69 (here 45-48
11. Martin Hengel, Judaism and Hellenism (trans. J. Bowden; London: SCM Press, 1974), 298,
12. For the textual issues, see P. Sanders, The Provenance of Deuteronomy 32 (Oudtestamentliche Studiën 37
13. Leiden: Brill, 1996), 154-60.
14. E.g. Mark S. Smith, The Early History of God: Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1987), 7-8;
15. Robert Kahl Gnuse, No Other Gods: Emergent Monotheism in Israel (JSOTSup 241; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 1997), 182.
16. see John Day, Yahweh and the Gods and Goddesses of Canaan (JSOTSup 265
17. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic, 2000),
18. see Smith, The Early History, 11.
19. Margaret Barker, The Great Angel (London: SPCK, 1992), 6.
20. Barker, The Great Angel, 6-7
21. NRSV. This verse is not extant in Hebrew.
22. Segal, Two Powers in Heaven.
23. Horbury, "Jewish," 19.
24. Robert C. T. Hayward, "El Elyon and the Divine Names in Ben Sira," in Ben Sira's God (ed. Renate Egger-Wenzel; BZAW 321;
25. C. H. Dodd, The Bible and the Greeks (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1935), 12.
26. Dodd, The Bible, 12.
27. Deut 4:35, 39;
28. SibOr 3: 629, 760;
29. Philo, Opif. 23, 46;
30. Paul R. Trebilco, Jewish Communities in Asia Minor (SNTSMS 69; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 128-40;
31. Irina Levinskaya, The Book of Acts in Its Diaspora Setting, vol. 5
32. W. Horbury and D. Noy, Jewish Inscriptions of Graeco-Roman Egypt (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 200-201.
33. James R. Davila, The Provenance of the Pseudepigrapha: Jewish, Christian, Other? (JSJSup 105;
34. Dale C. Allison in his excellent work, Testament of Abraham (CEJL;