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Son of God

Divine Sonship in Jewish and Christian Antiquity
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In antiquity, “son of god”—meaning a ruler designated by the gods to carry out their will—was a title used by the Roman emperor Augustus and his successors as a way to reinforce their divinely appointed status. But this title was also used by early Christians to speak about Jesus, borrowing the idiom from Israelite and early Jewish discourses on monarchy. This interdisciplinary volume explores what it means to be God’s son(s) in ancient Jewish and early Christian literature. Through close readings of relevant texts from multiple ancient corpora, including the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Greco-Roman texts and inscriptions, early Christian and Islamic texts, and apocalyptic literature, the chapters in this volume engage a range of issues including messianism, deification, eschatological figures, Jesus, interreligious polemics, and the Roman and Jewish backgrounds of early Christianity and the authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The essays in this collection demonstrate that divine sonship is an ideal prism through which to better understand the deep interrelationship of ancient religions and their politics of kingship and divinity. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Richard Bauckham, Max Botner, George J. Brooke, Jan Joosten, Menahem Kister, Reinhard Kratz, Mateusz Kusio, Michael A. Lyons, Matthew V. Novenson, Michael Peppard, Sarah Whittle, and N. T. Wright.

Author Biography:

Garrick V. Allen is Lecturer in New Testament at Dublin City University and Research Associate at the Department of Ancient and Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Pretoria. Kai Akagi is Lecturer of New Testament Studies at Japan Bible Academy.Paul Sloan is Assistant Professor of Theology at Houston Baptist University. Madhavi Nevader is Lecturer in Hebrew Bible at St Mary’s College, University of St Andrews.
Release date Australia
March 4th, 2019
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributors
  • Edited by Garrick V Allen
  • Edited by Kai Akagi
  • Edited by Madhavi Nevader
  • Edited by Paul Sloan
Pages
296
Dimensions
152x229x229
ISBN-13
9781575069920
Product ID
28474259

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