Redemption and resistance : : the Messianic hopes of Jews and Christians in antiquity / / edited by Markus Bockmuehl & James Carleton Paget.

• TeilnehmendeR: Bockmuehl, Markus N. A.,; Paget, James Carleton,
• Place / Publishing House: London ;, New York : : T & T Clark,, 2009.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (410 pages) :; illustrations
• Notes: Originally published: 2007.

Table of Contents

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 Mshiha / 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.