The modern problem of Christ and the messiahs -- Messiah language in ancient Judaism -- Names, titles, and other possibilities -- Christ phrases in Paul -- Christ passages in Paul
Summary
Recent scholarship on ancient Judaism has generally concluded that the word 'messiah' did not mean anything determinate in antiquity. Meanwhile, interpreters of Paul have concluded that 'christos' in Paul does not bear its conventional sense. Novenson argues that language must be taken as evidence for its range of meaning
