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The Grammar of Messianism - An Ancient Jewish Political Idiom and Its Users (Paperback)
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The Grammar of Messianism - An Ancient Jewish Political Idiom and Its Users (Paperback)
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Messianism is one of the great themes in intellectual history. But
because it has done so much important ideological work for the
people who have written about it, the historical roots of the
discourse have been obscured from view. What did it mean to talk
about "messiahs" in the ancient world, before the idea of
messianism became a philosophical juggernaut, dictating the terms
for all subsequent discussion of the topic? In this book, Matthew
V. Novenson offers a revisionist account of messianism in
antiquity. He shows that, for the ancient Jews and Christians who
used the term, a messiah was not an article of faith but a manner
of speaking. It was a scriptural figure of speech, one among
numerous others, useful for thinking about kinds of political
order: present or future, real or ideal, monarchic or theocratic,
dynastic or charismatic, and other variations besides. The early
Christians famously seized upon the title "messiah" (in Greek,
"Christ") for their founding hero and molded the sense of the term
in certain ways; but, Novenson shows, this is just what all ancient
messiah texts do, each in its own way. If we hope to understand the
ancient texts about messiahs (from Deutero-Isaiah to the Parables
of Enoch, from the Qumran Community Rule to the Gospel of John,
from the Pseudo-Clementines to Sefer Zerubbabel), we must learn to
think not in terms of a world-historical idea but of a language
game, of so many creative reuses of an archaic Israelite idiom. In
The Grammar of Messianism, Novenson demonstrates the possibility
and the benefit of thinking of messianism in this way.
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