Craig: Yes, Bauckham is less confident of the significance of this Jewish background than I am. The two ideas are not the same. My point is that "room" for the kind of thing Christians proclaimed is seen in the types of background that is present here. The ideas do not match, because Jesus has unique honor and position, but the idea of some type of personification of God being at work was a part of a segment of Judaism in the first century. The step to an intimately related figure is a short one. dlb

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