Messianism is one of the great themes in intellectual history. But because it has done so much important ideological work for the people who have written about it, the historical roots …
In this study, David Willgren attempts to provide answers to two fundamental questions in relation to the formation of theBook'of Psalms:" how?" and" why?". The first relates to the …
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I am grateful to James H. Charlesworth for accepting this book for publication, and for several valuable conversations on the topic. His wisdom greatly enhanced my research. I …
An old, bloodthirsty tyrant hears from a group of Magi about the birth of the Messiah, king of the Jews. He vengefully sends his soldiers to Bethlehem with orders to kill all of the baby …
Katell Berthelot challenges the widespread historiographical consensus that the Hasmoneans embarked on wars of conquest in order to reconquer the Promised Land, the …
Jews have sometimes been reluctant to claim Jesus as one of their own; Christians have often been reluctant to acknowledge the degree to which Jesus' message and mission were …
The restoration of Jewish statehood in the late 2nd century BCE was an event of great historical significance. The Jewish state had ceased to exist over 400 years previously due …
Although Roman centurions appear at crucial stages in the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, the significance of the centurion's office for the development of Luke's story has …
In The Danielic Discourse on Empire in Second Temple Literature, Alexandria Frisch asks: how did Jews in the Second Temple period understand the phenomenon of foreign empire …