New Covenant Polemics: Jesus Commands the Storm

I recently reviewed Dr. John D. Currid’s Against the Gods . He argues convincingly that the Old Testament parallels to ancient Near Eastern literature should be understood as polemic. “Polemic theology is the use by biblical writers of the thought forms and stories that were common in ancient Near Eastern culture, while filling them with radically new meaning . . . . Polemic theology is monotheistic to the very core” (Against the Gods 25). From there I started asking, “In what ways is Jesus mi...