Redemption and Resistance

Markus Bockmuehl teaches biblical and early Christian studies in the University of Oxford, UK, where he is Dean Ireland’s Professor and a Fellow of Keble College. His approach stresses the symbioses of history with theology, of Christianity alongside Judaism, and of exegesis in and as reception especially of the first three Christian centuries. Among his authored books are Seeing the Word: Refocusing New Testament Study (2006), Simon Peter in Scripture and Memory (2012), and Ancient Apocryphal Gospels (2017). Recent publications also include Creation ex Nihilo (2018, ed. with Gary A. Anderson), Austin Farrer (2020, ed. with Stephen Platten), and the English translation of Wolfram Kinzig’s Christian Persecution in Antiquity (2021). James Carleton Paget is Senior Lecturer in New Testament Studies in the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, UK.

‘I hope this very readable and inspiring book will find its place as a standard work in every library and on the desk of all who are interested in the problems and history of Jewish Christian relations.' ~ Martin Hengel, Emeritus Professor of New Testament and Early Judaism, University of Tübingen, Germany

• List of Contributors Preface - Raphael Loewe Introduction - Markus Bockmuehl & James Carleton Paget 1. The Persian Period - Joachim Schaper 2. The Hasmonaean Period - Jan Willem van Henten 3. The Herodian Period - Seàn Freyne 4. Plutarch's Life of Numa: Some Observations on Graeco Roman ‘Messianism' - Hans Dieter Betz 5. Resistance and Redemption in the Jesus Tradition - Markus Bockmuehl 6. Messianism and Christology: Mark, Matthew, Luke and Acts - Graham Stanton 7. Messiah and Resistance in the Gospel and Epistles of John - Judith M. Lieu 8. The Christ of Paul - Andrew Chester 9. The Catholic Epistles and Hebrews - David G. Horrell 10. The Apocalypse - Paul Spilsbury 11. Messianism and Politics in the Land of Israel, 66-135 C.E. - Martin Goodman 12. Jews and Christians in the Holy Land, 135-325 - Oskar Skarsaune 13. Syria and Mesopotamia - Sebastian Brock 14. Egypt - James Carleton Paget 15. The West and North Africa - Wolfram Kinzig 16. Material Remains - David Noy 17. The Rabbis and Messianism - Philip S. Alexander 18. Messianism in Ancient Bible Translations in Greek and Latin - Alison Salvesen 19. Messianism in Ancient Bible Translations in Aramaic and Syriac - Robert P. Gordon 20. Jewish and Christian Messianic Hopes in pre-Christian Byzantium - Nicholas de Lange 21. False Prophet, False Messiah and the Religious Scene in Seventh-Century Jerusalem - Guy G. Stroumsa William Horbury's Publications Works Cited