Thomas L. Thompson, The Messiah Myth

"The interrelated themes that have brought Weiss and Schweitzer - and the scholarship following them - to speak of Jesus as an apocalyptic prophet do not reflect religious movements of the first century BCE. The thematic elements of a divinely destined era of salvation, a messianic fullness of time and a day of judgment bringing about a transformation of the world from a time of suffering to the joys of the kingdom are all primary elements of a coherent, identifiable literary tradition, centuries earlier than the gospels, well-known to us from the Bible and texts throughout the entire ancient Near East."
Thomas L. Thompson, The Messiah Myth, 2005: 28.

일찌기 '아모리가설'이란 판을 갈아엎은 톰슨이(1974), 정말 흥미롭고 동시에 필요한 '메시야 소재'를 다루었습니다. 고대근동의 문학적 인터텍스쳐 안에서 '메시야'가 재사용되고 있다는 주장을 하고 있습니다. 언제나 그렇지만, 인문학은 필요조건 안에서 그 빛이 발하는 것 같습니다.