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Title Redemption and resistance : the Messianic hopes of Jews and Christians in antiquity / edited by Markus Bockmuehl & James Carleton Paget
Published London ; New York : T & T Clark, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (410 pages) : illustrations
Contents Origins of Jewish Messianic expectation. The Persian period / Joachim Schaper -- The Hasmonean period / Jan WIllem van Henten -- The Herodian period / Sean Freyne -- Plutarch's life of Numa: some observations on Graeco-Roman 'Messianism" / Hans Dieter Betz -- The New Testament. Resistance and redemption in the Jesus tradition / Markus Bockmuehl -- Messiamisn and Christology : Mark, Matthew, Luke and Acts / Graham Stanton -- Messiah and resistance in the gospel and epistles of John / Judith M. Lieu -- The Christ of Paul / Andrew Chester -- The Catholic epistles and Hebrews / David G. Horrell -- The apocalypse / Paul Spilsbury -- Jewish and Christian Messianism in contact and controversy. Messianism and politics in the land of Israel, 66-135 C.E. / Martin Goodman -- Jesus and Christians in the Holy Land, 135-315 C.E. / Oskar Skarsaune -- Syria and Mesopotamia : the shared term Malka Mshiḥa / Sebastian Brock -- Egypt / James Carleton Paget -- The West and North Africa / Wolfram Kinzig -- Material remains / David Noy -- The rabbis and Messianism / Philip S. Alexander -- Messianism in ancient Bible translations in Aramaic and Syriac / Robert P. Gordon -- Jewish and Christian Messianic hopes in pre-Islamic Byzantium / Nicholas de Lange -- False prophet, false Messiah and the religious scene in seventh-century Jerusalem / Guy D. Stoumsa
Summary Redemption and Resistance brings together an eminent cast of contributors to provide a state-of-the-art discussion of Messianism as a topic of political and religious commitment and controversy. By surveying this motif over nearly a thousand years with the help of a focused historical and political searchlight, this volume is sure to break fresh ground. It will serve as an attractive contribution to the history of ancient Judaism and Christianity, of the complex and often problematic relationship between them, and of the conflicting loyalties their hopes for redemption created vis-à-vis a publ
Notes Originally published: 2007
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-349) and indexes
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Subject Messiah -- History of doctrines
Messiah -- Judaism -- History of doctrines
Messianism.
Political messianism.
RELIGION -- Judaism -- General.
Political messianism
Messiah -- History of doctrines
Messiah -- Judaism -- History of doctrines
Messianism
Form Electronic book
Author Bockmuehl, Markus N. A., editor
Paget, James Carleton, editor
ISBN 9780567318763
0567318761