Christ among the Messiahs

Recent scholarship on ancient Judaism, finding only scattered references to messiahs in Hellenistic- and Roman-period texts, has generally concluded that the word 'messiah' did not mean anything determinate in antiquity. Meanwhile, interpreters of Paul, faced with his several hundred uses of the Greek word for 'messiah,' have concluded that 'christos' in Paul does not bear its conventional sense. Against this curious consensus, Matthew Novenson argues in Christ
among the Messiahs that language must be taken as evidence for its range of meaning.