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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...

משיחא. It is undeniable that a figure who is called משיח is addressed as “my son” by God in Psalm 2. In the following chapters we address the relations of kingship and messiahship to divinity. John J. Collins has written the first four chapters. Chapter 1, “The King as Son of God,” assesses the evidence for the divinity of the Israelite king in the royal psalms. Chapter 2, “The Kingship in Deuteronomistic and Prophetic Literature,” shows how the royal ideology was modified in that literature and
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