TY  - BOOK
AU  - Frerichs,Ernest S.
AU  - Green,William Scott
AU  - Neusner,Jacob
TI  - Judaisms and their messiahs at the turn of the Christian era /Jacob Neusner
AV  - BM615 .J833 1987
PY  - 1987///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Jesus Christ
KW  - Judaism
KW  - History
KW  - Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D
KW  - Messiah
KW  - History of doctrines
N1  - 2; Introduction: Messiah in Judaism: rethinking the question / William Scott Green --; Wisdom makes a difference: alternatives to "Messianic" configurations / Burton L. Mack --; Salvation without and with a Messiah: developing beliefs in writings ascribed to Encoh / George W.E. Nickelsburg --; How the authors of 1 and 2 Maccabees treated the "Messianic" promises / Jonathan A. Goldstein --; Messianism in the Maccabean period / John J. Collins --; Waiting for the Messiah: the spiritual universe of the Qumran Covenanters / Shemaryahu Talmon --; Philo and Messiah / Richard D. Hecht --; Messiah and gospel / George MacRae --; Christology in Mark's gospel / Howard Clark Kee --; The question of the Messiah in 4 Ezra / Michael E. Stone --; From Jewish Messianology to Christian Christology: some caveats and perspectives / J.H. Charlesworth --; Mishnah and Messiah / Jacbo Neusner; 2; b
N2  - While Jews in ancient Israel had much in common, in fact there existed no such thing as an orthodox Judaism. Diverse Judaisms, each with its own way of life, world view, and definition of the social entity (or Israel) to whom it spoke, flourished. Since there was no single Judaism, there was no single Messiah-idea or Messianic doctrine. Various readings of the Messiah theme reached definition in the various unrelated religious systems or Judaisms produced by those Jews--hence "Judaisms" and "their Messiahs." In this book, distinguished specialists in late antiquity Judaisms, including Christian scholars, take up the differing place and role of the Messiah-idea. Dealing with the best-documented Judaic systems--the Essene community at Qumran, Christian Judaisms represented by Matthew and Mark, the nascent rabbinic Judaism portrayed in the Mishnah, the Judaic system implicit in the writings of Philo--each author works out how a given system treats the Messiah theme. --
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