Redemption and Resistance The Messianic Hopes of Jews and Christians in Antiquity
Bockmuehl, Markus
Redemption and Resistance The Messianic Hopes of Jews and Christians in Antiquity Markus Bockmuehl and James Carleton Paget - UK T&T Clark 2009 - 381tr. Paperback, Illustration 23 cm
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.
97805670304443
Messiah -- History of doctrines
Messianic Judaism
Religion -- Judaism -- General
296.336 / B665-M35
Redemption and Resistance The Messianic Hopes of Jews and Christians in Antiquity Markus Bockmuehl and James Carleton Paget - UK T&T Clark 2009 - 381tr. Paperback, Illustration 23 cm
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.
97805670304443
Messiah -- History of doctrines
Messianic Judaism
Religion -- Judaism -- General
296.336 / B665-M35