The Great Angel: A Study of Israel's Second God

by Margaret Barker

What did "Son of God," "Messiah," and "Lord," mean to the first Christians when they used these words to describe their beliefs about Jesus? In this book Margaret Barker explores the possibility that, in the expectations and traditions of first-century Palestine, these titles belonged together, and that the first Christians fit Jesus' identity into an existing pattern of belief. She claims that pre-Christian Judaism was not monotheistic and that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0664253954
• ISBN13: 9780664253950
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 8.6"