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Christ among the Messiahs - Christ Language in Paul and Messiah Language in Ancient Judaism (Paperback)
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Christ among the Messiahs - Christ Language in Paul and Messiah Language in Ancient Judaism (Paperback)
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Recent scholarship on ancient Judaism, finding only scattered
references to messiahs in Hellenistic- and Roman-period texts, has
generally concluded that the word ''messiah'' did not mean anything
determinate in antiquity. Meanwhile, interpreters of Paul, faced
with his several hundred uses of the Greek word for ''messiah,''
have concluded that christos in Paul does not bear its conventional
sense. Against this curious consensus, Matthew V. Novenson argues
in Christ among the Messiahs that all contemporary uses of such
language, Paul's included, must be taken as evidence for its range
of meaning. In other words, early Jewish messiah language is the
kind of thing of which Paul's Christ language is an example.
Looking at the modern problem of Christ and Paul, Novenson shows
how the scholarly discussion of christos in Paul has often been a
cipher for other, more urgent interpretive disputes. He then traces
the rise and fall of ''the messianic idea'' in Jewish studies and
gives an alternative account of early Jewish messiah language: the
convention worked because there existed both an accessible pool of
linguistic resources and a community of competent language users.
Whereas it is commonly objected that the normal rules for
understanding christos do not apply in the case of Paul since he
uses the word as a name rather than a title, Novenson shows that
christos in Paul is neither a name nor a title but rather a Greek
honorific, like Epiphanes or Augustus. Focusing on several set
phrases that have been taken as evidence that Paul either did or
did not use christos in its conventional sense, Novenson concludes
that the question cannot be settled at the level of formal grammar.
Examining nine passages in which Paul comments on how he means the
word christos, Novenson shows that they do all that we normally
expect any text to do to count as a messiah text. Contrary to much
recent research, he argues that Christ language in Paul is itself
primary evidence for messiah language in ancient Judaism.
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