There are a lot of errors in this statement.toejam wrote:^I'm becoming less and less convinced that we can say that Jesus wasn't viewed as divine by his immediate followers..
Fist of all pious Galilean Jews should never blaspheme against the one god. To them "son of god" was a Hellenistic title the emperor first held.
So you would have to explain why Galilean Jews viewed the peasant Jesus as an Emperor, because that's what son of god implied in context.
Next, what did Jesus REALLY do in Galilee that would make Jews turn against their faith in one god?
Had Aramaic Jews viewed Jesus as divine, they surely would have had some kind of written traditions regarding this view. Its not what we see. We see Hellenist perverting Judaism comparing Jesus to the Emperor in this divine status. He is not being compared to yahweh