The Divine Self-Understanding of Jesus

The book argues that Jesus spoke and acted in ways that indicated he believed himself to be divine, a claim often overlooked by contemporary scholarship. Dr. Brant Petrie emphasizes that this divine self-understanding was communicated through parables and allusions to Jewish scripture, fitting into the Jewish context of the first century. Rather than merely claiming to be a human Messiah, Jesus presented himself as a divine figure, a 'superhuman' Messiah. This redefining of Jesus' identity serves as a corrective to the prevalent belief that such claims arose only from his followers or the early church after his death.