It has been two weeks since my last post on Bart D. Ehrman’s How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of the Jewish Preacher from Galilee and the response book from Bird, Evans, et al., How God Became Jesus: The Real Origins of Belief in Jesus’ Divine Nature —A Response to Bart D. Ehrman. I’ve been busy with other things, but that hasn’t stopped the discussion from moving forward in the blogosphere. For those who are interested, here is a round-up of some of the most recent posts as well as links to my first seven entries:
Round-Up:
Christianity around the Blogosphere by James McGrath
How Jesus Became God, Pt. 1; Pt. 2; Pt. 3; Pt. 4 by Daniel Kirk
How God Became Jesus, Pt. 1 by Daniel Kirk
How God Became Jesus: Bird v. Ehrman on Jewish Monotheism; Bird v. Ehrman on the Historical Jesus; Pt. 3 by Nijay Gupta
How God Became Jesus Stuff in the News; Responding the Daniel Kirk’s Strange Review; How God Became Jesus — and How I Came to Faith in Him by Michael Bird
A great point by Ehrman: the resurrection is not ‘probable’; Ehrman on literacy and the disciples by Matthew R. Malcolm
Chris Tilling aims a relational christology at Bart Ehrman by Andrew Perriman
Previous Entries:
Pt. 1: Prelude
Pt. 2: “How did Jesus become God?”
Pt. 3: introducing the response book
Pt. 4: the divinity-humanity continuum
Pt. 5: more on the divinity-humanity continuum
Pt. 6: “the Early High Christology Club”
Pt. 7: Bird’s first response
the archives near Emmaus 
One of Ehrman’s weakest points is his position that Jesus did not claim to be “The son of Man”. I just finished Bird’s book and didn’t know that was his view. They failed to hammer him on that issue.
It’s his achilles heel in this dialectic. I enjoyed the book and felt Gathercole and Tilling did a little better job than Michael did.