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King and Messiah as Son of God: Divine, Human, and Angelic Messianic Figures in Biblical and Related Literature is unavailable, but you can change that!

This volume traces the history of the idea that the king—and later the messiah—is Son of God, from its origins in ancient Near Eastern royal ideology to its Christian appropriation in the New Testament. Both highly regarded scholars, Adela Yarbro Collins and John J. Collins argue that Jesus was called “the Son of God” precisely because he was believed to be the messianic king. This belief and...

received its classic treatments from Hugo Gressmann9 and Sigmund Mowinckel.10 It was carried to extremes by the Myth and Ritual School, exemplified by S. H. Hooke in England11 and Ivan Engnell in Sweden,12 which posited a high degree of uniformity throughout the ancient Near East and interpreted elliptic biblical texts in light of supposed “patterns.” Partly in reaction to the excesses of the Myth and Ritual School, some scholars insisted that the divine sonship was metaphorical or “a formula of
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