Messiahs and Messianic Movements through 1899
Messiahs and Messianic Movements through 1899

Author: Roland H. Worth, Jr.

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2010-06-28

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 0786482273

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A messiah is an individual appointed by God to a specific task of importance, and elevated to a level of far greater authority than a prophet by leading (or claiming to lead) a group or movement. The movement comes to be uniquely centered on his or her teachings, and the messiah claims spiritual and temporal authority over its followers. This book is an examination of both males and females in the Judeo-Christian heritage (excluding Jesus of Nazareth) who either claimed to be the messiah, were viewed by contemporaries as such, or are considered by a significant number of scholars to have been motivated by messianic goals. The work is arranged chronologically, with details about messiahs from before Christ through the dawn of the technological age at the end of the nineteenth century. It covers nearly 100 individual messiahs, including such Old Testament figures as King Hezekiah and Herod the Great, as well as later messiahs both obscure and historically renowned (even Queen Elizabeth I and King Charles I were touted as messiahs by certain devoted followers). Meticulously researched, the book includes an extensive bibliography.

Joseph Rabinowitz and the Messianic Movement
Joseph Rabinowitz and the Messianic Movement

Author: Kai Kjaer-Hansen

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13:

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Joseph Rabinowitz (1837-1899) is one of the most remarkable figures of the recent history of Jewish Christianity. In the Russian town of Kishinev he set up a congregation which is called "The Israelites of the New Covenant". As a Jew who believed in Jesus, Rabinowitz insisted on his Jewish identity; that caused some problems which Messianic Jews of our day are familiar with. In 1888 Rabinowitz said, "I have two subjects with which I am absorbed: one, the Lord Jesus Christ; the other, Israel". This book gives insight into the recent history of Jewish Christianity and the controversial question of the identity of Messianic believers.

The Jewish Messiahs
The Jewish Messiahs

Author: Harris Lenowitz

Publisher:

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780197741511

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The author explores the history of Jewish messianic movements. By examining the messianic idea within the tradition which bore it, he seeks to provide a basis for the understanding of contemporary messianic groups.

Consummation of the Ages vol III
Consummation of the Ages vol III

Author: Henry Epps

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2012-08-29

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 1300140860

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Consummation of the ages vol III deals with the subjects of demons, devils and false messiahs and the growing apsotasy in the christian churches.

Bandits, Prophets, and Messiahs
Bandits, Prophets, and Messiahs

Author: Richard A. Horsley

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 1999-02-01

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 9781563382734

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A brilliant portrait of Jewish culture in the first century rediscovers the common people in the time of Jesus, and contains a fresh evaluation of Jesus' relation to this complex society.

Biblical Studies on the Internet
Biblical Studies on the Internet

Author: Roland H. Worth, Jr.

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2008-09-18

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 0786451130

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The new edition includes more than 4,800 resources available at more than 10,000 Internet sites that provide information on a range of biblical study topics including Bible translations in English and other languages, audio translations of the Bible in English and other languages, commentaries, dictionaries, and other resource materials including ones in Greek, Hebrew and other ancient languages. The author also has adopted a new method of referencing and cataloging the most widely used web pages to facilitate a major expansion of resources without increasing the physical length of the book itself. In cases when ten or more resources are listed on a single web page, the author has assigned the web page a three-digit code. The code is used to identify this web page as a major resource within the main text, while any needed instructions for use of the site are cross-referenced separately in the final chapter. In adopting this concise method, the author was able to add hundreds of additional or updated web resources, a surprising number of which can be downloaded onto a hard drive for immediate and continued use.

Shapers of Early Christianity
Shapers of Early Christianity

Author: Roland H. Worth, Jr.

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2010-06-28

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 0786482281

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In 100 A.D., Christianity was practiced only by a small, oppressed minority. Three hundred years later, Christianity had become one of the world's major religions. But this change did not happen easily. The imperial government of Rome, intellectual tradition and battles within the church itself influenced the transformation. Every viewpoint had its champions and opponents and whether they were "defenders of the faith" or those whom history later labeled heretics, they were part of the early evolution of Christianity. This volume discusses more than 50 figures who played a role in the transformation from primitive Christianity to early Medieval Catholicism. As it examines the lives and influence of imperial rulers such as Constantine, proponents of the intellectual tradition including Gregory of Neocaesaria and Julius Africanus, and early Bible translators such as Tatian, Origen and Jerome, the work provides a fascinating look at Christian history.

Fiction Beyond Secularism
Fiction Beyond Secularism

Author: Justin Neuman

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2014-07-31

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0810129892

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Modernist thinkers once presumed a progressive secularity, with the novel replacing religious texts as society’s moral epics. Yet religion—beginning with the Iranian revolution of 1979, through the collapse of communism, and culminating in the singular rupture of September 11, 2001—has not retreated quietly out of sight. In Fiction Beyond Secularism, Justin Neuman argues that contemporary novelists who are most commonly identified as antireligious—among them Orhan Pamuk, Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, Margaret Atwood, Nadine Gordimer, Haruki Murakami, and J. M. Coetzee—have defied assumptions and have instead written some of the most trenchant critiques of secular ideologies, as well as the most exciting and rigorous inquiries into the legacies of the religious imagination. As a result, many readers (or nonreaders) on either side of the religious divide neglect the insights of works like The Satanic Verses, Disgrace, and Snow. Fiction Beyond Secularism serves as a timely corrective.