Messianism among Jews and Christians : biblical and historical studies
This collection of 12 studies is focused on the Herodian period and the New Testament, but looks back to the Apocrypha and pseudepigrapha, and onward to Judaism and Christianity in the Roman empire.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
ix, 417 pages ; 24 cm
9780567088086, 0567088081
1001117567
Introduction; The Second-Temple Period; 1. Messianism in the Old Testament Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha; 2. The Gifts of God in Ezekiel the Tragedian; 3. Herod's Temple and 'Herod's Days'; The New Testament; 4. The Messianic Associations of 'The Son of Man'; 5. The Twelve and the Phylarchs; 6. Jerusalem in Pre-Pauline and Pauline Hope; 7. The Aaronic Priesthood in the Epistle to the Hebrews; 8. Septuagintal and New Testament Conceptions of the Church; Synagogue And Church In The Roman Empire; 9. Messianism among Jews and Christians in the Second Century; 10. Suffering and Messianism in Yose ben Yose; 11. Antichrist among Jews and Gentiles; 12. The Cult of Christ and the Cult of the Saints; Index
Contains twelve articles, originally published 1981-1998