Redemption and Resistance: The Messianic Hopes of Jews and Christians in Antiquity

Catholic Biblical Quarterly, The, April, 2008 by Collins, John J

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MARKUS BOCKMUEHL and JAMES CARLETON FACET (eds.), Redemption and Resistance: The Messianic Hopes of Jews and Christians in Antiquity (London/New York: Clark, 2007). Pp. xxviii + 381. $160.95.

Bockmuehl and Paget accomplish a rare feat in producing a coherent and systematic festschrift for William Horbury on the topic of messianism. The editors also highlight the motif of resistance, but this, inevitably, is more significant in some essays than in others. There are twenty-one essays, divided into three sections. ...