Redemption and Resistance

The Messianic Hopes of Jews and Christians in Antiquity
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-567-03043-6
Verlag: Continnuum-3PL

Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 778 g

Examines how, for both Christians and Jews, Messianic hopes and conflicts developed in the face of opposition and controversy with fellow Jews, Christians, and pagans.

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bockmuehl, Markus

Paget, James Carleton

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Biblische & Klassische Periode
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Neues Testament: Exegese, Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Dialog & Beziehungen zwischen Religionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Frühes Christentum, Patristik, Christliche Archäologie

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Markus Bockmuehl is Professor of Biblical and Early Christian Studies at the University of St Andrews, UK.
James Carleton Paget is a Lecturer in New Testament Studies in the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge. Among his publications is The Epistle of Barnabas: Outlook and Background (Tübingen 1994).