Description In antiquity, "son of god"--meaning a ruler designated by the gods to carry out their will--was a title used by the Roman emperor Augustus and his successors as a way to reinforce their divinely appointed status.
This interdisciplinary volume explores what it means to be God\'s son(s) in ancient Jewish and early Christian.
But this title was also used by early Christians to speak about Jesus, borrowing the idiom from Israelite and early Jewish discourses on monarchy.
Description In antiquity, "son of god"--meaning a ruler designated by the gods to carry out their will--was a title used by the Roman emperor Augustus and his successors as a way to reinforce their divinely appointed status