Disciples of the Beloved One

This is the most thorough investigation yet published on the early Christian apocalypse called the 'Ascension of Isaiah'. Knight examines all the critical issues in the study of this document, including matters of date, provenance and purpose. Particular attention is paid to the book's concepts of christology (with a view both to that christology's Jewish mediatorial background and to its relationship with wider Christianity) and millenarianism (with a view to the social setting of the writer and his readers). Questions concerning the author as haggadist and exegete are also addressed.

About the author

Jonathan Knight is Research Fellow of the Katie Wheeler Trust and Visiting Fellow in New Testament and Christian Ministry at York St John University. Previous appointments include Lecturer and Research Fellow in Biblical Studies at Sheffield University, Chaplain and Research Assistant to Stephen Sykes and Chaplain of Worcester College, Oxford, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Knight
• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.1997
• EAN: 9781850755586
• ISBN: 978-1-85075-558-6
• No. of pages: 356
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 222 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 579 g
• Series: The Library of Second Temple Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Practical theology; RELIGION / Biblical Meditations / General, Bible readings, selections & meditations, Bible readings, selections and meditations