Messianism among Jews and Christians
twelve biblical and historical studies
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Word Count
104,250 words, Guess
Page Count
417 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3705245M
- ISBN-100567088081
- OCLC Control Number51194762
- OCLC Control Numbermessianismamongj0000horb
- Library of Congress Control Number2003273763
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- Goodreads808279
- LibraryThing6515992
Classifications
- DDC296.3/36
- LCCBM615 .H67 2003
Description
William Horbury considers the issue of messianism as it arises in Jewish and Christian tradition. Whilst Horbury's primary focus is the Herodian period and the New Testament, he presents a broader historical trajectory, looking back to the Apocrypha and pseudepigrapha, and onward to Judaism and Christianity in the Roman empire. Within this framework Horbury treats such central themes as messianism in the Apocrypha and pseudepigrapha, the Son of man and Pauline hopes for a new Jerusalem, and Jewish and Christian messianism in the second century. Neglected topics are also given due consideration, including suffering and messianism in synagogue poetry, and the relation of Christian and Jewish messianism with conceptions of the church and of antichrist and with the cult of Christ and of the saints. Throughout, Horbury sets messianism in a broader religious and political context and explores its setting in religion and in the conflict of political theories. This new edition features a new extended introduction which updates and resituates the volume within the context of current scholarship
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"These twelve studies of messianism among Jews and Christians focus primarily on the Herodian period and the New Testament, in the setting of ancient jewish and early Christian theology."--BOOK JACKET.
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