Son of God: Divine Sonship in Jewish and Christian Antiquity

Published by Penn State University Press 2019

Son of God

Divine Sonship in Jewish and Christian Antiquity

Edited by: Garrick V. Allen , Kai Akagi , Paul Sloan and Madhavi Nevader

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781646020089

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In antiquity, “son of god”—meaning a ruler designated by the gods to carry out their will—was a title used by the Roman emperor Augustus and his successors as a way to reinforce their divinely appointed status. But this title was also used by early Christians to speak about Jesus, borrowing the idiom from Israelite and early Jewish discourses on monarchy. This interdisciplinary volume explores what it means to be God’s son(s) in ancient Jewish and early Christian literature.

Through close readings of relevant texts from multiple ancient corpora, including the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Greco-Roman texts and inscriptions, early Christian and Islamic texts, and apocalyptic literature, the chapters in this volume engage a range of issues including messianism, deification, eschatological figures, Jesus, interreligious polemics, and the Roman and Jewish backgrounds of early Christianity and the authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The essays in this collection demonstrate that divine sonship is an ideal prism through which to better understand the deep interrelationship of ancient religions and their politics of kingship and divinity.

In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Richard Bauckham, Max Botner, George J. Brooke, Jan Joosten, Menahem Kister, Reinhard Kratz, Mateusz Kusio, Michael A. Lyons, Matthew V. Novenson, Michael Peppard, Sarah Whittle, and N. T. Wright.

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Allen Garrick V. :

Garrick V. Allen is Lecturer in New Testament at Dublin City University and Research Associate at the Department of Ancient and Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Pretoria.Sloan Paul :

Kai Akagi is Lecturer of New Testament Studies at Japan Bible Academy.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introducing Son of God : Divine Sonship in Jewish and Christian Antiquity Kai Akagi, Paul Sloan and Garrick V. Allen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: Son of God in Early Jewish Literature
1. Son of God and Son of Man: 4Q246 in the Light of the Book of Daniel Reinhard G. Kratz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
2. Son of God, Sons of God, and Election in the Dead Sea Scrolls George J. Brooke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	28
3. Son of God in Wisdom 2:16–18: Between the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament Jan Joosten Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
4. Son of God in the Book of Revelation and Apocalyptic Literature Garrick V. Allen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
5. Whose Son Is the Messiah? Matthew V. Novenson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	72
Part II: Son of God in Early Christianity and the Gentile World
6. Jesus’s Use of “Father” and Disuse of “Lord” Richard Bauckham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
7. “Whoever Does the Will of God” (Mark 3:35): Mark’s Christ as the Model Son Max Botner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
8. Son of God and Christian Origins N. T. Wright Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
9. Son of God in Gentile Contexts (That Is, Almost Everywhere) Michael Peppard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
10. “Declared to Be Son of God in Power”: Romans 1:4 and the Iconography of Imperial Apotheosis Sarah Whittle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
11. “To Become like His Brothers”: Divine Sonship and Siblingship in Hebrews Mateusz Kusio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
12. Son(s) of God: Israel and Christ: A Study of Transformation, Adaptation, and Rivalry Menahem Kister Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
13. What Does God Get Out of It? Reciprocity and Divine Sonship Michael A. Lyons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Index of Ancient Sources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269

Language: English
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 296

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Published: February 8, 2019
ISBN: 9781646020089