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Redemption and resistance : the messianic hopes of Jews and Christians in antiquity

This book is designed as a graduate textbook and basic scholar's reference for a state-of-the-art discussion of messianism as a topic of political and religious commitment and controversy. By surveying this motif over nearly a thousand years with the help of a focused historical and political searchlight, this volume is sure to break fresh ground and to serve as an essential contribution to the history of ancient Judaism and Christianity

Print Book, English, ©2007
T & T Clark, London, ©2007