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Son of God: Divine Sonship in Jewish and Christian Antiquity

By Garrick V. Allen (Editor), Kai Akagi (Editor), Paul Sloan (Editor), Madhavi Nevader (Editor)
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By Garrick V. Allen (Editor), Kai Akagi (Editor), Paul Sloan (Editor), Madhavi Nevader (Editor)
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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.

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