Redemption and resistance
Subtitle: the Messianic hopes of Jews and Christians in antiquity
By: edited by Markus Bockmuehl and James Carleton Paget
Publisher: T & T Clark
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9780567030443
Notes: Originally published: 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-349) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Origins of Jewish Messianic expectation. The Persian period / Joachim Schaper; title: The Hasmonean period / Jan WIllem van Henten; title: The Herodian period / Sean Freyne; title: Plutarch's life of Numa: some observations on Graeco-Roman 'Messianism" / Hans Dieter Betz; title: The New Testament. Resistance and redemption in the Jesus tradition / Markus Bockmuehl; title: Messiamisn and Christology : Mark, Matthew, Luke and Acts / Graham Stanton; title: Messiah and resistance in the gospel and epistles of John / Judith M. Lieu; title: The Christ of Paul / Andrew Chester; title: The Catholic epistles and Hebrews / David G. Horrell; title: The apocalypse / Paul Spilsbury; title: Jewish and Christian Messianism in contact and controversy. Messianism and politics in the land of Israel, 66-135 C.E. / Martin Goodman; title: Jesus and Christians in the Holy Land, 135-315 C.E. / Oskar Skarsaune; title: Syria and Mesopotamia : the shared term Malka Mshiḥa / Sebastian Brock; title: Egypt / James Carleton Paget; title: The West and North Africa / Wolfram Kinzig; title: Material remains / David Noy; title: The rabbis and Messianism / Philip S. Alexander; title: Messianism in ancient Bible translations in Aramaic and Syriac / Robert P. Gordon; title: Jewish and Christian Messianic hopes in pre-Islamic Byzantium / Nicholas de Lange; title: False prophet, false Messiah and the religious scene in seventh-century Jerusalem / Guy D. Stoumsa.