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Christ among the Messiahs: Christ Language in Paul and Messiah Language in Ancient Judaism Novenson, Matthew V. (Teaching Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Teaching Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of Edinburgh)
Christ among the Messiahs: Christ Language in Paul and Messiah Language in Ancient Judaism
Novenson, Matthew V. (Teaching Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Teaching Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of Edinburgh)
Recent scholarship on ancient Judaism, finding only scattered references to messiahs in Hellenistic- and Roman-period texts, has generally concluded that the word 'messiah' did not mean anything determinate in antiquity. Meanwhile, interpreters of Paul, faced with his several hundred uses of the Greek word for 'messiah,' have concluded that 'christos' in Paul does not bear its conventional sense. Against this curious consensus, Matthew Novenson argues in Christamong the Messiahs that language must be taken as evidence for its range of meaning.
240 pages, black & white tables
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | May 24, 2012 |
| ISBN13 | 9780199844579 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 256 |
| Dimensions | 165 × 241 × 22 mm · 549 g |
| Language | English |