Messianic Expectation in the Old Testament = Messiaserwartung im Alten Testament (1980 @1977 Becker), book (English ed.)

Messianic Expectation in the Old Testament (1980) is the English edition of Messiaserwartung im Alten Testament (1977 Becker), book.

Editions

Published in Philadelphia, PA: Fortress Press, 1980; translated from the German by David E. Green.

Table of contents

The perspective of the New Testament and the church -- Antimonarchic movements in Israel -- The Davidic monopoly -- Nathan's prophecy -- The Yahwist -- Sacral kingship and Messianism during the monarchy -- Restorative monarchism and theocracy after the monarchy -- The restorative monarchism of the Deuteronomistic history -- Restorative monarchism in the prophetic books -- Zerubbabel -- The theocratic theory of the nation -- The Messianological vacuum -- "Late Judaism" -- The threshold of the New Testament -- Once more the perspective of the New Testament