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This book is a Biblical defense of the divinity of Jesus. What this means is that it isn't addressed to atheists or people who doubt the accuracy of the Bible; it is addressed to those like Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses with whom some measure of Biblical authority is something taken for granted. I say that because inevitably critics will object that it assumes or doesn't cover this or that, when it was not meant to.
With that settled, the content: With people like Bauckham, Hurtado, Hengel, and Wallace giving this book props, and prior reviews listing the content, my own two cents' worth really doesn't need to be added, but here it is anyway: This book is a thorough and eminently worthwhile exposition on the Biblical case for Christ as God. I'll mention my one reservation: I do think the authors could have made use of the Wisdom template, but they reject an identification of Christ with Wisdom in Proverbs 8 [107] and so cannot go that route. The rest of the book, however, offers a wealth of detailed information and exposition about the divine titles used in the NT, and goes so far as to answer some of the wackier ideas in sources like The Aquarian Gospel and the JW apologetics of Greg Stafford. (That's not a bad thing, because someone HAS needed to address these ideas directly and in this format for a long time.)
This one is solid enough to earn a place in my "Apologetics Arsenal".