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Redemption and Resistance: The Messianic Hopes of Jews and Christians in Antiquity
Professor Markus Bockmuehl
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Description for Redemption and Resistance: The Messianic Hopes of Jews and Christians in Antiquity
Paperback. Offers a discussion of Messianism as a topic of political and religious commitment and controversy. This book serves as a contribution to the history of ancient Judaism and Christianity, of the complex and often problematic relationship between them, and of the conflicting loyalties. Num Pages: 410 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAF; HRC; HRJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 628.
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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
410
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
410
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780567030443
SKU
V9780567030443
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About Professor Markus Bockmuehl
Dr Markus Bockmuehl is Professor of Biblical and Early Christian Studies at the University of St Andrews, UK. James Carleton Paget is Senior Lecturer in New Testament Studies in the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, UK.
Reviews for Redemption and Resistance: The Messianic Hopes of Jews and Christians in Antiquity
"'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 Tubingen, Germany 'The volume's journey starts and ends in Jerusalem; on ... Read more