In antiquity, “son of god”—meaning a ruler designated by the
gods to carry out their will—was a title used by the Roman
emperor Augustus and his successors as a way to reinforce their
divinely appointed status. But this title was also used by early
Christians to speak about Jesus, borrowing the idiom from Israelite
and early Jewish discourses on monarchy. This interdisciplinary
volume explores what it means to be God’s son(s) in ancient
Jewish and early Christian literature. Through close readings of
relevant texts from multiple ancient corpora, including the Hebrew
Bible, the New Testament, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Greco-Roman texts
and inscriptions, early Christian and Islamic texts, and
apocalyptic literature, the chapters in this volume engage a range
of issues including messianism, deification, eschatological
figures, Jesus, interreligious polemics, and the Roman and Jewish
backgrounds of early Christianity and the authors of the Dead Sea
Scrolls. The essays in this collection demonstrate that divine
sonship is an ideal prism through which to better understand the
deep interrelationship of ancient religions and their politics of
kingship and divinity. In addition to the editors, the contributors
to this volume include Richard Bauckham, Max Botner, George J.
Brooke, Jan Joosten, Menahem Kister, Reinhard Kratz, Mateusz Kusio,
Michael A. Lyons, Matthew V. Novenson, Michael Peppard, Sarah
Whittle, and N. T. Wright.
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