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Book Review: One God, One Lord: Early Christian Devotion and Ancient Jewish Monotheism

Larry Hurtado is Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Manitoba. His previous work includes Text-Critical Methodology and thePre-Caesarean Text: Codex W in the Gospel ofMark (Eerdmans, 1981), originally a dissertation written under the supervision of Eldon Jay Epp at Case Western Reserve University. In One God, One Lord, Hurtado has turned his attention from textual criticism to the origins of Christology. Given Hurtado's active participation in the Society of Biblical Literature's New Testament Christology Group for the past several years, such a shift is not surprising. With One God, One Lord, Hurtado joins a growing number of scholars who are attempting to take seriously the Jewish context of Christian origins. These scholars are mounting a serious challenge to the still influential work of the old religionsgeschichtliche Schule who sought to locate early Christian belief and practice within the religious context of Greco-Roman paganism. This new interest in the Jewish context of early Christianity amounts to a new "history-of-religions" approach, of which Martin Hengel is perhaps the most influential advocate. Hurtado has made a significant contribution to rethinking the beginnings of Christology along these lines. Hurtado's thesis is twofold. First, he argues "that ancient Judaism provided the first Christians with a Book Reviews Review and Expositor, 88 (1990)