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Christ Among the Messiahs: Christ Language in Paul and Messiah Language in Ancient Judaism

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Christ Among the Messiahs: Christ Language in Paul and Messiah Language in Ancient Judaism - Novenson, Matthew V
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Recent scholarship on ancient Judaism, finding only scattered references to messiahs in Hellenistic- and Roman-period texts, has generally concluded that the word ''messiah'' did not mean anything determinate in antiquity. Meanwhile, interpreters of Paul, faced with his several hundred uses of the Greek word for ''messiah, '' have concluded that ''christos'' in Paul does not bear its conventional sense. Against this curious consensus, Matthew Novenson argues in Christ among the Messiahs that these varied uses of such ...

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Christ Among the Messiahs: Christ Language in Paul and Messiah Language in Ancient Judaism 2015, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780190274092

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