Matthew Colvin’s Reviews > Jesus Monotheism > Status Update

Totally misreads Bauckham and wrongly charges him with docetism. I am not impressed.

Add to this the fact that the author relies heavily on gematria, and I have a deepening skepticism that anything of lasting value will come from this book. So far, the author is on the side of Bauckham, Hurtado, and Wright, endorsing the “early high Christology” thesis that they have advanced.

It does not inspire confidence when the author makes elementary mistakes of Latin and Greek: “in the Greek of 1 Thess 3:11 the verb “direct” (kateuthynai) is a singular” (no, it is an infinitive, which does not have number) and ““there is the practice of writing the name of Jesus as a nomina sacra” (sic; nomen sacrum would be the singular).