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The New Testament is of prime importance for understanding early Jewish and Christian messianism and eschatology. Yet often the New Testament presumes a background and context of belief without fully articulating it. Early Jewish and Christian messianism and eschatology, after all, did not emerge in a vacuum; they developed out of early Jewish hopes that had their roots in the Old Testament. A...

there can be little doubt that the prominence in the New Testament of the epithets such as “Son of God” and “Son of the Most High” probably has something to do with their usage in the Graeco-Roman world. These and closely related epithets were everywhere applied to the Roman emperors. One inscription describes Julius Caesar (ruled 48–44 BCE) as “the manifest god from Mars and Aphrodite, and universal savior of human life” (SIG 760). In many inscriptions and papyri Augustus (30 BCE–14 CE), who was
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