Publisher | Oxford University Press |
ISBN 13 | 9780190053215 |
ISBN 10 | 0190053216 |
Author | Senior Lecturer Matthew V Novenson |
Language | English |
Book Description | In this book, Novenson gives a revisionist account of messianism in antiquity. He shows that, for the ancient Jews and Christians who used the term, a messiah was not an article of faith but a manner of speaking: a scriptural figure of speech useful |
About the Author | Matthew V. Novenson is Senior Lecturer in New Testament and Christian Origins at the University of Edinburgh. He has also been a visiting professor at Dartmouth College and Duke University and a visiting research fellow at Durham University. He is the author of Christ among the Messiahs (Oxford University Press, 2012). |
Publication Date | 2019-04-01 |
Number of Pages | 384 pages |
The Grammar of Messianism: An Ancient Jewish Political Idiom and Its Users