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Messianism Among Jews and Christians features twelve studies of messianism among Jews and Christians focused primarily on the Herodian period and the New Testament, in the setting of ancient Jewish and early Christian theology. William Horbury examines some relatively neglected topics bearing on messianism, including the treatment of suffering in synagogue poetry and the theology of grace in...

These studies review the setting and content of messianic hope in ancient Judaism and early Christianity. The earliest among them appeared in 1981, when their subject was receiving rather less notice in biblical scholarship than is now the case. To set the collection in context I have picked out some characteristic themes of subsequent study for notice in this introduction. The first is the lively continuance of a time-honoured debate on the importance of messianic hope in ancient Judaism
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