Messiah and Exaltation: Jewish Messianic and Visionary Traditions and New Testament Christology

ISBN-13: 9783161490910 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 716 str.

Andrew Chester

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Andrew Chester focuses on Jewish messianic hope, intermediary figures, and visionary traditions of human transformation, particularly in the Second Temple period, and analyzes their significance for the origin and development of New Testament Christology. He brings together five previously published essays on these themes: these include two long chapters, one on Jewish messianic and mediatorial traditions in relation to Pauline Christology, the other on messianism and eschatology in early Judaism and Christianity, plus one on messiah and Temple in Sibylline Oracles 3-5. Two further essays, on the significance of Torah in the messianic age, and on resurrection, transformation and early Christology, have been extensively revised. There are also three substantial new chapters, all of which engage closely with recent scholarly debate. The first, on the origin of Christology, argues for the significance of Jewish visionary traditions of human transformation for understanding how 'high' Christology came about at such an early stage within the New Testament. The second discusses the complex questions of the definition, scope and nature of Jewish messianism, especially in relation to the Hebrew Bible and the more-recently available Qumran evidence, and their significance for the New Testament. The third is concerned with what Paul means by the 'law of Christ', and the wider issues raised by this.

Andrew Chester focuses on Jewish messianic hope, intermediary figures, and visionary traditions of human transformation, particularly in the Second Temple period, and analyzes their significance for the origin and development of New Testament Christology. This volume brings together five previously published essays (the last two extensively revised): on Jewish messianic and mediatorial traditions in relation to Pauline Christology; on messianism and eschatology in early Judaism and Christianity, on messiah and Temple in Sibylline Oracles 3-5, on the significance of Torah in the messianic age, and on resurrection, transformation and early Christology. There are also three substantial new chapters, all engaging closely with recent debate: the first is on the origin of Christology, the second on central issues in Jewish messianism, and the third on the law of Christ in Paul.

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Born 1948; 1966-69 studied Semitic Languages at Oxford; 1970-72 Theology at Cambridge; 1973-76 PhD studies at Cambridge; since 1994 Fellow, Selwyn College, University of Cambridge; since 2008 University Reader in Early Jewish and Christian Thought, University of Cambridge.