early church fathers engaged in messianic readings of Israel’s Scriptures and Jewish traditions in order to depict Christ’s identity and saving work, I was excited to further explore the possibility that Jewish messianism had an afterlife within patristic biblical interpretation and, more broadly, Christian theology. In other words, while I did not want to argue that Christ’s messianic kingship was the singular and all-encompassing theme within the NT texts, the confession of Jesus as the Messiah