Son of God

Divine Sonship in Jewish and Christian Antiquity

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-03-04
Mått:152 x 229 x 229 mm
Vikt:544 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:296
Förlag:Pennsylvania State University Press
ISBN:9781575069920

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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.

Innehållsförteckning

AbbreviationsIntroducing Son of God: Divine Sonship in Jewish and Christian Antiquity—Kai Akagi, Paul Sloan, and Garrick V. AllenPart I: Son of God in Early Jewish Literature1 Son of God and Son of Man: 4Q246 in the Light of the Book of Daniel—Reinhard G. Kratz2 Son of God, Sons of God, and Election in the Dead Sea Scrolls—George J. Brooke3 Son of God in Wisdom 2:16–18: Between the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament—Jan Joosten4 Son of God in the Book of Revelation and Apocalyptic Literature—Garrick V. Allen5 Whose Son Is the Messiah?—Matthew V. NovensonPart II: Son of God in Early Christianity and the Gentile World6 Jesus’s Use of “Father” and Disuse of “Lord”—Richard Bauckham7 “Whoever Does the Will of God” (Mark 3:35): Mark’s Christ as the Model Son—Max Botner8 Son of God and Christian Origins—N. T. Wright9 Son of God in Gentile Contexts (That Is, Almost Everywhere)—Michael Peppard10 “Declared to Be Son of God in Power”: Romans 1:4 and the Iconography of Imperial Apotheosis—Sarah Whittle11 “To Become like His Brothers”: Divine Sonship and Siblingship in Hebrews—Mateusz Kusio12 Son(s) of God: Israel and Christ: A Study of Transformation, Adaptation, and Rivalry—Menahem Kister13 What Does God Get Out of It? Reciprocity and Divine Sonship—Michael A. LyonsBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex of Ancient Sources