Timeline for Was there any significance to the term χριστὸς in koine Greek outside of Judeo-Christian thought?
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| Jun 6, 2014 at 16:17 | comment | added | Susan | You've also provided considerable education to this OP, and the pictures of the Cyrus Cylinder from the British Museum are amazing! +1 | |
| Jun 6, 2014 at 13:47 | comment | added | Dɑvïd | Good connections to make, too! Certainly adds value to the Q&A thread, at a bit of a tangent, as you note. Thanks! | |
| Jun 6, 2014 at 13:20 | comment | added | Joseph | @David - you are correct. What piqued me to write the response however was the enigmatic depiction of Cyrus, whose head appeared to be receiving rains pouring from heaven. The parallels were too striking to ignore, especially when the Hebrew Bible uses the same words to convey him as "Christos." | |
| Jun 6, 2014 at 7:21 | comment | added | Dɑvïd | You're right that the Cyrus Cylinder and Isaiah 45 have notable connections. It doesn't help OP, though: use of χριστός is limited to LXX, and "anointing" is not a feature of the Cyrus Cylinder (see text, [encoding there is ISO-8859-1]). It provides no evidence, then, for the semantics of χριστός outside the Jewish-Christian milieu. For latest scholarly treatment of Cyrus Cylinder, see Amélie Kuhrt, "ANE History: The Case of Cyrus the Great of Persia", in H.G.M. Williamson, Understanding the History of Ancient Israel (OUP, 2007), pp. 107-27. | |
| Jun 6, 2014 at 1:40 | history | answered | Joseph | CC BY-SA 3.0 |