TY - BOOK AU - Bird,Michael F. TI - How God became Jesus: the real origins of belief in Jesus' divine nature--a response to Bart Ehrman SN - 9780310509591 AV - BT216.B618.H694 2014 PY - 2014/// CY - Grand Rapids PB - Zondervan KW - Jesus Christ KW - Ehrman, Bart D. -- KW - Jesus Christ. N1 - 1; The story of Jesus as the story of God; Michael F. Bird --; Of gods, angels, and men; Michael F. Bird --; Excursus 1: Kings, angels, and holy men --; Did Jesus think he was God? / Michael F. Bird --; Getting the burial traditions and evidence right; Craig A. Evans --; What did the first Christians think about Jesus? / Simon Gathercole --; Problems with Ehrman's interpretive categories; Chris Tilling --; Misreading Paul's Christology: problems with Ehrman's exegesis; Chris Tilling --; An exclusive religion: orthodoxy and heresy, inclusion and exclusion; Charles E. Hill --; Excursus 2: Second-century evidence for Jesus as God: pagan, early orthodox, and gnostic testimony --; Excursus 3: Second-century evidence for Jesus as God: the Nomina Sacra --; Paradox pushers and persecutors? / Charles E. Hill --; Excursus 4: Third-century evidence for Jesus as God: the Alexamenos Graffitio --; Excursus 5: Third-century evidence for Jesus as God: The inscription at Meggido --; Concluding thoughts; Michael F. Bird; 2 N2 - Five Bible scholars refute the assertions in Bart Ehrman's "How Jesus Became God," a book claiming that Jesus, and even his disciples, did not believe that he was God ER -