Early Jewish Monotheism

Just a note to an interesting post on the topic of early Jewish monotheism over on Larry Hurtado's blog. Larry is a retired professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at the University of Edinburgh, and I have been following his blog for some time. Larry's posts are always informative, and our interests in early Christianity and the New Testament overlap considerably. His 2005 book, Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity, is a good introduction to historical issues related to how Jesus came to be identified with the Divine in the practices of the early Christians. His post referenced above refers to an article of his coming out later this year. He proposes the term "ancient Jewish monotheism" to describe the early Jewish commitment to worship only the one God of Israel. Students in my Paul and Early Judaism class: take note! There will be material here to add texture and perspective to our discussion of Jewish creational monotheism as explained in N.T. Wright's Paul and the Faithfulness of God.