Redemption and Resistance: The Messianic Hopes of Jews and Christians in Antiquity

411 Pages·2007·11.01 MB·English

by  Markus Bockmuehl & James Carleton Paget (editors)

Redemption and Resistance

Redemption and Resistance
The Messianic Hopes of Jews and Christians
in Antiquity
Edited by
Markus Bockmuehl & James Carleton Paget
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ISBN-10: 0-567-03043-1 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-567-03043-6 (hardback)
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CONTENTS
List of Contributors ix
List of Abbreviations xiii
Preface - Raphael Loewe xix
Introduction - Markus Bockmuehl & James Carleton Paget xxi
PART I: ORIGINS OF JEWISH MESSIANIC EXPECTATION 1
Chapter 1. THE PERSIAN PERIOD -Joachim Schaper 3
Chapter 2. THE HASMONEAN PERIOD - Jan Willem van Henten 15
Chapter 3. THE HERODIAN PERIOD - Sean Freyne 29
Chapter 4. PLUTARCH's LIFE OF NUMA: SOME OBSERVATIONS ON
GRAECO-ROMAN `MESSIANISM' - Hans Dieter Betz 44
PART II: THE NEW TESTAMENT 63
Chapter 5. RESISTANCE AND REDEMPTION IN THE JESUS TRADITION -
Markus Bockmuehl 65
Chapter 6. MESSIANISM AND CHRISTOLOGY: MARK, MATTHEW,
LUKE AND AcTs - Graham Stanton 78
Chapter 7. MESSIAH AND RESISTANCE IN THE GOSPEL AND EPISTLES
OF JOHN - Judith M. Lieu 97
Chapter 8. THE CHRIST OF PAUL - Andrew Chester 109
Chapter 9. THE CATHOLIC EPISTLES AND HEBREWS - David G. Horrell 122
Chapter 10. THE APOCALYPSE - Paul Spilsbury 136
PART III: JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN MESSIANISM IN CONTACT AND 147
CONTROVERSY
Chapter 11. MESSIANISM AND POLITICS IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL,
66-135 C.E. - Martin Goodman 149
Contents
vi
Chapter 12. JEws AND CHRISTIANS iN THE HOLY LAND, 135-325 C.E.
- Oskar Skarsaune 158
Chapter 13. SYRIA AND MESOPOTAMIA: THE SHARED TERM
MALxa MSHIHA - Sebastian Brock 171
Chapter 14. EGYPT -- James Carleton Paget 183
Chapter 15. THE WEST AND NORTH AFRicA - Wolfram Kinzig 198
Chapter 16. MATERIAL REMAINs - David Noy 215
Chapter 17. THE RABBIS AND MESSIANISM - Philip S. Alexander 227
Chapter 18. MESSIANISM IN ANCIENT BIBLE TRANSLATIONS IN
GREEK AND LATIN - Alison Salvesen 245
Chapter 19. MESSIANISM N ANCIENT BIBLE TRANSLATIONS IN ARAMAIC
AND SYRLAC - Robert P. Gordon 262
Chapter 20. JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN MESSIANIC HOPES IN
PRE-IsLAMIc BYZANTIUM - Nicholas de Lange 274
Chapter 21. FALSE PROPHET, FALSE MESSIAH AND THE RELIGIOUS SCENE
IN SEVENTH-CENTURY JERUSALEM - Guy G. Stroumsa 285
Appendix: William Horbury's Publications 297
Works Cited 303
Index of Ancient Sources 351
Index of Authors 371
Index of Subjects 379
DOCTISSIMO AC DILECTISSIMO
IUDAICAE NECNON CHRISTIANAE SPEI MAGISTRO
WILLIAM HORBURY
AMICI DISCIPULIQUE HOC FLORILEGIO
PIAM GRATIAM AGUNT
AD DIEM NATALEM SEXAGESIMUM QUINTUM