The Nonviolent Messiah

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The Nonviolent Messiah is written by Simon J. Joseph and published by Fortress Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1451484437 (ISBN 10) and 9781451484434 (ISBN 13).

When scholars have set Jesus against various conceptions of the “messiah” and other redemptive figures in early Jewish expectation, those questions have been bound up with the problem of violence, whether the political violence of a militant messiah or the divine violence carried out by a heavenly or angelic figure. Missing from those discussions, Simon J. Joseph contends, are the unique conceptions of an Adamic redeemer figure in the Enochic material­—conceptions that informed the Q tradition and, he argues, Jesus’ own self-understanding.