Redemption and Resistance

The Messianic Hopes of Jews and Christians in Antiquity

Markus Bockmuehl, James Carleton Paget

• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN:
  9780567030443
• eBook ISBN:
  9780567318763
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Ancient History

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-à-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.

Table of contents

• Contents
• List of Contributors
• List of Abbreviations
• Preface
• Introduction
• PART I: ORIGINS OF JEWISHMESSIANIC EXPECTATION
• PART II: THE NEW TESTAMENT
• PART III: JEWISH AND CHRISTIANMESSIANISM IN CONTACT AND CONTROVERSY
• Appendix: William Horbury’s Publications
• Works Cited
• Index of Ancient Sources
• Index of Authors
• Index of Subjects