Goulder, Incarnation or Eschatology?
The truth is that Jewish sources never think of Messiah as divine or pre-existent [the name of Messiah is created before the world according to rabbinic traditions (b Pes.54a, Ned.39b etc.), but that is a very different thing from Messiah's own pre-existence] in mainstream Judaism he is the descendant of Davidic Covenant in 2 Samuel 7....
If Jesus thought of himself as Messiah it is this human figure that he had in mind, with the the traditional terms 'the Son of God', 'the Son of Man', 'lord' all used of human Jewish kings in the Psalter (2.7; 80.18; 110.1 etc.)....
Being a monotheist, Jesus cannot have thought of himself sanely as being Yahweh.
The truth is that Jewish sources never think of Messiah as divine or pre-existent [the name of Messiah is created before the world according to rabbinic traditions (b Pes.54a, Ned.39b etc.), but that is a very different thing from Messiah's own pre-existence] in mainstream Judaism he is the descendant of Davidic Covenant in 2 Samuel 7....
If Jesus thought of himself as Messiah it is this human figure that he had in mind, with the the traditional terms 'the Son of God', 'the Son of Man', 'lord' all used of human Jewish kings in the Psalter (2.7; 80.18; 110.1 etc.)....
Being a monotheist, Jesus cannot have thought of himself sanely as being Yahweh.
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