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The Grammar of Messianism - An Ancient Jewish Political Idiom and Its Users (Hardcover)
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The Grammar of Messianism - An Ancient Jewish Political Idiom and Its Users (Hardcover)
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Messianism is one of the great themes in intellectual history. But
for precisely this reason, because it has done so much important
ideological work for the people who have written about it, the
historical roots of the discourse itself 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 gives 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 kinds of
political order: present or future, real or ideal, monarchic or
theocratic, dynastic or charismatic, and other variations beside.
The early Christians famously seized upon the title "messiah" (in
Greek, "Christ") for their founding hero and thus molded the sense
of the term in certain ways, but, Novenson shows, this is nothing
other than 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), then we must learn to think in terms not 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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