Redemption and resistance : the Messianic hopes of Jews and Christians in antiquity / edited by Markus Bockmuehl and James Carleton Paget. - London ; New York : T & T Clark, 2008. - xxvii, 381 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Originally published: 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-349) and indexes.

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.

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Messiah--History of doctrines.
Messiah--Judaism--History of doctrines.
Messianism.

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