By Markus Bockmuehl, James Carleton Paget
Redemption and Resistance brings jointly an eminent solid of participants to supply a cutting-edge dialogue of Messianism as a subject of political and non secular dedication and controversy. via surveying this motif over approximately one thousand years with assistance from a centred historic and political searchlight, this quantity is certain to damage clean flooring. it's going to function an enticing contribution to the historical past of old Judaism and Christianity, of the complicated and infrequently complicated dating among them, and of the conflicting loyalties their hopes for redemption created vis-?-vis a public order that used to be at the start pagan and later Christian. even though each one bankruptcy is designed to face by itself as an creation to the subject handy, the general argument unfolds a coherent heritage. the 1st elements, on pre-Christian Jewish and primitive Christian Messianism, set the degree through settling on entities that during half III are then addressed within the improvement in their particular dating in a Graeco-Roman international marked by way of violent persecution of Jewish and Christian hopes and loyalties. the tale is then explored past the Constantinian flip and its abortive reversal less than Julian, to the Christian Empire as much as the increase of Islam.
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34 On the use of the terms 'messianism/messianic' and 'eschatology/eschatological', cf. Schaper 1995: 26-30. 35 Translation taken from the RSV. The Persian Period 9 - seem to have played an important role in the formation of the Twelve Prophets. 36 One of the scarlet threads that run through the Twelve is the concept of the Day of Yahweh, and various concepts of messianic figures and their reigns - concepts of exilic and post-exilic origin - figure prominently in the final text of the Dodekapropheton (Mic.
35, 38, 41-2). It depicts him as an autocratic ruler, who not only finances but also personifies the Jewish state. 41) suggests that the Hasmonaeans were the obvious rulers of the Jewish theocratic state. 1-24). 23-26). 5-21). The reference to the true prophet in 1 Macc. 41 (cf. ). 1 Macc. 41 can, however, also be read as a veiled claim by a Hasmonean ruler, perhaps Simon's son John Hyrcanus, that he would not only be the Jews' political and priestly leader, but also take over the prophetic leadership.
Horbury 1998c: 64-108 3 argues for a broad focus and includes the ruler cult, angelic deliverers as well as spiritual messiahs in his discussion of pre-Christian messianism. Hengel 1988, 1989a. 5 Hengel 2001: 8; also pp. 10, 12-13, 29. g. H. Stegemann 1993: 286-7; Collins 1995:49,52-3,56,94,195; Oegema 1998b; Evans 2000: 538. The Hasmonean Period 17 messianism in the Hasmonean period, therefore, requires a contextual introduction that pays attention to: 1) the Judaism and Hellenism debate 2) the foundation of the Hasmonean dynasty preceded by the Maccabaean revolt 3) the ideology of the Hasmonean rulers.