Messianism among Jews and Christians biblical and historical studies William Horbury.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horbury, William, author.

Series:

T&T Clark Cornerstones

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. New Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Messiah--Judaism.

Messiah.

Messiah--Biblical teaching.

Messiah--History of doctrines--Early Church, ca. 30-600.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (481 p.)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

London Bloomsbury 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

The second temple period

The New Testament

Synagogue and church in the Roman Empire

Preface

Reflective Introduction

Introduction to first edition

The Second-Temple Period

1. Messianism in the Old Testament Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha

2. The Gifts of God in Ezekiel the Tragedian

3. Herod's Temple and 'Herod's Days'

4. The Messianic Associations of 'The Son of Man'

5. The Twelve and the Phylarchs

6. Jerusalem in Pre-Pauline and Pauline Hope

7. The Aaronic Priesthood in the Epistle to the Hebrews

8. Septuagintal and New Testament Conceptions of the Church

Synagogue and the Church in the Roman Empire

9. Messianism among Jews and Christians in the Second Century

10. Suffering and Messianism in Yose ben Yose

11. Antichrist among Jews and Gentiles

12. The Cult of Christ and the Cult of the Saints

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN:

9780567662767

0567662764

9780567662774

0567662772

9780567662750

0567662756

OCLC:

932333704