Christ’s Enthronement at God’s Right Hand and Its Greco-Roman Cultural Context
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D. Clint Burnett
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Given the dearth of non-messianic interpretations of Psalm 110:1 in non-Christian Second Temple Jewish texts, why did it become such a widely used messianic prooftext in the New Testament and early Christianity? Previous attempts to answer this question have focused on why the earliest Christians first began to use Ps 110:1. The result is that these proposals do not provide an adequate explanation for why first century Christians living in the Greek East employed the verse and also applied it to Jesus’s exaltation. I contend that two Greco-Roman politico-religious practices, royal and imperial temple and throne sharing—which were cross-cultural rewards that Greco-Roman communities bestowed on beneficent, pious, and divinely approved rulers—contributed to the widespread use of Ps 110:1 in earliest Christianity. This means that the earliest Christians interpreted Jesus’s heavenly session as messianic and thus political, as well as religious, in nature.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgements
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List of Tables
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List of Figures
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Introduction
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Chapter 1 “Sit at My Right Hand” Psalm 110:1 in the Second Temple Period and Earliest Christianity
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Chapter 2 “That They Might Share the Temple or Throne” Temple Sharing and Throne Sharing in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods
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Chapter 3 “Beside the Gods in Their Temples” Royal and Imperial Temple Sharing
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Chapter 4 “Beside the Gods on their Thrones” Royal and Imperial Throne Sharing
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Chapter 5 “God Highly Exalted Him” Phil 2:9–11, Ps 110:1, and Jesus’s Share in God’s Temple and Throne
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Chapter 6 “Where the Messiah Is” Col 3:1–4, Ps 110:1, and Jesus’s Share in God’s Temple and Throne
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Conclusion
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Bibliography
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Index of Ancient Sources
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Index of Modern Authors
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Index of Subjects
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