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 for thinking kinds of political order.
Titel | The Grammar of Messianism An Ancient Jewish Political Idiom and Its Users |
Auteur | Matthew V. Novenson |
Uitgever | Oxford University Press Inc |
Jaar Verschenen | 2017 |
Taal | en |
Pagina's | pp. 384 |
ISBN13 | 9780190255022 |
Onderwerp | Messias, Messias (prototype) |
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