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Are You the One Who Is to Come?: The Historical Jesus and the Messianic Question is unavailable, but you can change that!

“Jesus understood himself as designated by God as the Messiah of Israel.” This thesis may strike many historical-Jesus scholars as dangerously bold. But through careful study of the Gospels, Second Temple literature, and other period texts, scholar Michael Bird makes a persuasive argument that Jesus saw himself as performing the role attributed to the messiah—in the Scriptures of Israel—and...

particular task as it relates to the liberation of Israel from its perceived travail and suffering.5 Another subject for discussion is the extent to which messianic ideas have their roots in the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible. Anointing was associated with three primary offices or ministries in ancient Israel: king,6 priest,7 and prophet,8 but mostly with the first of these. More to the point, the word משׁיח, “anointed one,” was not used of eschatological
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