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Messiah and exaltation : Jewish messianic and visionary traditions and New Testament christology

"Andrew Chester focuses on Jewish messianic hope, intermediary figures, and visionary traditions of human transformation, particularly in the Second Temple period, and analyses 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."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2007
Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, ©2007
xvi, 716 pages ; 24 cm.
9783161490910, 3161490916
123893331
Introduction
Christology and transformation
Resurrection, transformation and christology
The nature and scope of Messianism
Messianism, mediators and Pauline christology
eschatology and messianic hope
Messiah and temple in the Sybilline oracles
Messiah and Torah
The law of Christ and the law of the Spirit
Collection of texts partly published previously