Table of Contents

List of Contributors
Preface - Raphael Loewe
Introduction - Markus Bockmuehl & James Carleton Paget 1. The Persian Period - Joachim Schaper
2. The Hasmonaean Period - Jan Willem van Henten
3. The Herodian Period - Seàn Freyne
4. Plutarch's Life of Numa: Some Observations on Graeco Roman ‘Messianism' - Hans Dieter Betz
5. Resistance and Redemption in the Jesus Tradition - Markus Bockmuehl
6. Messianism and Christology: Mark, Matthew, Luke and Acts - Graham Stanton
7. Messiah and Resistance in the Gospel and Epistles of John - Judith M. Lieu
8. The Christ of Paul - Andrew Chester
9. The Catholic Epistles and Hebrews - David G. Horrell
10. The Apocalypse - Paul Spilsbury
11. Messianism and Politics in the Land of Israel, 66-135 C.E. - Martin Goodman
12. Jews and Christians in the Holy Land, 135-325 - Oskar Skarsaune
13. Syria and Mesopotamia - Sebastian Brock
14. Egypt - James Carleton Paget
15. The West and North Africa - Wolfram Kinzig
16. Material Remains - David Noy
17. The Rabbis and Messianism - Philip S. Alexander
18. Messianism in Ancient Bible Translations in Greek and Latin - Alison Salvesen
19. Messianism in Ancient Bible Translations in Aramaic and Syriac - Robert P. Gordon
20. Jewish and Christian Messianic Hopes in pre-Christian Byzantium - Nicholas de Lange
21. False Prophet, False Messiah and the Religious Scene in Seventh-Century Jerusalem - Guy G. Stroumsa William Horbury's Publications Works Cited

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Brings together an eminent cast of international contributors to provide a state-of-the-art discussion of Messianism.

About the Author

Markus Bockmuehl teaches biblical and early Christian studies in the University of Oxford, UK, where he is Dean Ireland’s Professor and a Fellow of Keble College. His approach stresses the symbioses of history with theology, of Christianity alongside Judaism, and of exegesis in and as reception especially of the first three Christian centuries. Among his authored books are Seeing the Word: Refocusing New Testament Study (2006), Simon Peter in Scripture and Memory (2012), and Ancient Apocryphal Gospels (2017). Recent publications also include Creation ex Nihilo (2018, ed. with Gary A. Anderson), Austin Farrer (2020, ed. with Stephen Platten), and the English translation of Wolfram Kinzig’s Christian Persecution in Antiquity (2021). James Carleton Paget is Senior Lecturer in New Testament Studies in the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, UK.

Reviews

‘I hope this very readable and inspiring book will find its place as a standard work in every library and on the desk of all who are interested in the problems and history of Jewish Christian relations.' ~ Martin Hengel, Emeritus Professor of New Testament and Early Judaism, University of Tübingen, Germany
*Martin Hengel*

'In twenty-one succinct chapters a crew of internationally renowned scholars attempt an up-to-date survey of the history of Messianism from the Persian period too Christian and Jewish Late Antiquity. The volume's journey starts and ends in Jerusalem; on the way it traverses many different political, cultural and religious contexts in which Messianic ideas and concepts were articulated. In this way the extraordinary complexity and diversity if the various "Messianisms" is revealed.' Winrich Löhr, University of Heidelberg, Germany.