Messianism among Jews and Christians: Biblical and Historical Studies (Second Edition)

by William Horbury

Publisher:

Bloomsbury

, 2016

Overview

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, you will also gain 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. Understand often neglected topics, 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.

Product Details

• Title: Messianism among Jews and Christians: Biblical and Historical Studies (Second Edition)
• Author: William Horbury
• Edition: Second Edition
• Series: The Cornerstones Series
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Print Publication Date: 2016
• Logos Release Date: 2019
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Bible. N.T. › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Messiah › Judaism; Messiah › Biblical teaching; Messiah › History of doctrines--Early Church, ca. 30-600
• ISBNs: 9780567662743, 9780567662750, 9780567662767, 0567662748, 0567662756, 0567662764
• Resource ID: LLS:MESSJEWCHRSN2ED
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T01:30:39Z

About William Horbury

William Horbury is Professor of Jewish and Early Christian Studies at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of the British Academy. His previous publications include Jews and Christians in Contact and Controversy.