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The Concept of the Messiah in the Scriptures of Judaism and Christianity (Library of Second Temple Studies) is unavailable, but you can change that!

For 2000 years, Judaism and Christianity have been at odds with one another. The problem at the heart of the division is the concept of Messiah. Shirley Lucass looks directly at the concept of Messiah from a historical perspective and examines its roots in ancient Jewish literature and its development within the Christian tradition. This study traces the biblical and extra-biblical developments...

Klausner, who is also puzzled why Jesus was not forgotten like all the other slain Messiahs,128 offers a different solution. He suggests that the answer lies in the “story” of Jesus’ resurrection.129 It is not that Klausner denies the resurrection, “since a faith that embraces millions of men and endures for thousands of years cannot be based on fabrication and conscious deception”;130 rather, for him, the resurrection appearance of Jesus was a “vision,” not a real appearance. Sandmel argues against
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