King and Messiah

Author:   A. Bentzen
Publisher:   James Clarke & Co Ltd
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9780227178546


Pages:   120
Publication Date:   29 September 2022
Format:   Hardback
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Any student of the New Testament must be conscious of the competing expectations in ancient Jewish thought of what and who the Messiah would be. In King and Messiah, Aage Bentzen offers a fascinating glimpse into this topic, which preoccupied the most eminent Scandinavian biblical scholars of the mid-twentieth century. Beginning with the Messiah described in many of the Psalms, representing a demythologised form of the Oriental concept of kingship, Bentzen proceeds to the eschatological Messiah of Isaiah and Micah. He next discusses the later, prophetic-Messianic Moses Redivivus of Deutero-Isaiah, reaching the final stage of Old Testament Messianic thought in the description of the Son of Man in Daniel 7, which carries the 'eschatologising' process still further. Bentzen shows how all of these Old Testament types are synthesised in the Christology of the New Testament - Jesus is the new Adam, the present Messiah, the suffering Prophet, the new Moses and the future Divine King - and yet simultaneously superseded. The Christian 'myth' adds its own adornment to the complex question of Jesus' identity.

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Author:   A. Bentzen
Publisher:   James Clarke & Co Ltd
Imprint:   James Clarke & Co Ltd
Weight:   3.116kg
ISBN:  

9780227178546


ISBN 10:   0227178548
Pages:   120
Publication Date:   29 September 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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"Foreword by Professor H.H. Rowley Author's Preface 1. Introduction 2. The Messiah in the Psalms 3. The Psalms in the Ritual 4. The King as the Present Messiah 5. Messiah and ""First Man"" 6. The Servant of Yahweh 7. The Position of the Servant of Yahweh in the History of the Israelite Messianic Hope 8. The Eschatologizing and Renaissance of the Myth Abbreviations used in the Notes Notes Index of Biblical Passages Index of Authors"

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Aage Bentzen (1894-1953) was a prolific Danish biblical scholar, and from 1929 was professor of biblical studies at the University of Copenhagen. In 1950 he was appointed the first president of the International Organisation of Old Testament Scholars, and was instrumental in setting up its journal, Vetus Testamentum. King and Messiah is typical of his work, which emphasised historical narrative in the study of ancient Israel.

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