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Son of God

Son of God

PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESSISBN: 9781575069920

Divine Sonship in Jewish and Christian Antiquity

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Edited by Garrick V. Allen, Kai Akagi, Paul Sloan, Madhavi Nevader
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An interdisciplinary exploration of the diverse discourse on divine sonship in ancient Jewish and Christian literature. Authors focus on a range of issues including messianism, deification, eschatological figures, Jesus, interreligious polemics, and the Roman and Jewish backgrounds of early Christian writers and the authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls.


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Introducing Son of God: Divine Sonship in Jewish and Christian Antiquity—Kai Akagi, Paul Sloan, and Garrick V. Allen

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

2 Son of God, Sons of God, and Election in the Dead Sea Scrolls—George J. Brooke

3 Son of God in Wisdom 2:16–18: Between the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament—Jan Joosten

4 Son of God in the Book of Revelation and Apocalyptic Literature—Garrick V. Allen

5 Whose Son Is the Messiah?—Matthew V. Novenson

Part II: Son of God in Early Christianity and the Gentile World

6 Jesus’s Use of “Father” and Disuse of “Lord”—Richard Bauckham

7 “Whoever Does the Will of God” (Mark 3:35): Mark’s Christ as the Model Son—Max Botner

8 Son of God and Christian Origins—N. T. Wright

9 Son of God in Gentile Contexts (That Is, Almost Everywhere)—Michael Peppard

10 “Declared to Be Son of God in Power”: Romans 1:4 and the Iconography of Imperial Apotheosis—Sarah Whittle

11 “To Become like His Brothers”: Divine Sonship and Siblingship in Hebrews—Mateusz Kusio

12 Son(s) of God: Israel and Christ: A Study of Transformation, Adaptation, and Rivalry—Menahem Kister

13 What Does God Get Out of It? Reciprocity and Divine Sonship—Michael A. Lyons

Bibliography

List of Contributors

Index of Ancient Sources


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