Redemption and Resistance
The Messianic Hopes of Jews and Christians in Antiquity
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780567030436
Number of Pages: 410
Published: 31/05/2007
Width: 15.6 cm
Height: 23.4 cm
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--vis a public order that was at first pagan and later Christian. Although each chapter is designed to stand on its own as an introduction to the topic at hand, the overall argument unfolds a coherent history. The first two parts, on pre-Christian Jewish and primitive Christian Messianism, set the stage by identifying two entities that in Part III are then addressed in the development of their explicit relationship in a Graeco-Roman world marked by violent persecution of Jewish and Christian hopes and loyalties.
The story is then explored beyond the Constantinian turn and its abortive reversal under Julian, to the Christian Empire up to the rise of Islam.
Introduction (MB & JCP); Part I: A History of Pre-Christian Messianism; Part II: The Jesus Movement and the New Testament; Part III: Jewish and Christian Messianism in Contact and Controversy.
"This volume offers a wide-ranging and valuable investigation of ancient Jewish and Christian notions of messianism by some of the leading authorities in the field." 32.5 (2008)--Sanford Lakoff "Journal for The Study of the Old Testament "