By Markus Bockmuehl
This concise yet very thought-provoking paintings at the ancient Jesus via Markus Bockmuehl posits that the old guy of Jesus can't be separated from the Christ of religion. Taking a conventional argument and imprinting it with the best scholarship, Bockmuehl refers to quite a lot of canonical and non-canonical old texts, starting from Roman historians Tacitus and Suetonius to Jewish historian Josephus, and during Christian assets in addition to the Gospels. His end means that Jesus was once certainly the Messiah, yet no longer the Messiah anticipated via his contemporaries.
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5f. 23f. in Hebrew), preceded by the promise of the "prophet like M oses" (Deut. 15), raised the hope that Elijah, the greatest o f the classical prophets, would be sent to help Israel just at the time o f her greatest need. Although the New Testament treats the return o f Elijah as a precursor o f the M essiah, this is not always clear in other texts. 40). 31). Almost always he is 50 This Jesus a fully human figure, bom o f human parents although divinely anointed to be king. Nevertheless, in apocalyptic circles he can b e assigned additional exalted features such as his presence before God in heaven prior to appearing on earth (7 Enoch, 4 Ezra, Sibylline O racles 5, 1 lQM elch).
This term, in English usually rendered "anointed", and in Greek christos (hence the name "Christ"), denotes a ritual action used to designate and appoint someone for a special task. g. Aaron, Exod. ) and King (the most famous instances are Samuel's anointing o f Saul, 1 Sam. 10, and o f D avid, 1 Sam. 16), but later also that o f Prophet (Isa. 1). Royal T heology Numerous biblical traditions are important for the understand ing of M essianism in the first century. Some passages first came to be related to the Messiah when Christians began using them as prophecies fulfilled in Christ.
Kingdom and Redem ption Several other features o f post-exilic belief are worth pointing out. First, the hoped-for deliverance had a universal dimension, in that it applied to God's dominion over the whole world and creation. In this it was indebted to the Hebrew prophetic tradition. On the other hand, there was also a strongly held Was Jesus the Messiah? 47 national Jewish particularism which focused on God's relationship with the Jewish people often to the virtual exclusion o f the Gentiles. In addition to this collective nationalist emphasis, moreover, Judaism also shared in the increasing interest in individual salvation which arose in the Hellenistic world.