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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...

of last century it was considered that “the Jews” had missed “the time of their visitation” and “the Christians” had distorted the Jewish Scriptures and fabricated a Hellenized version of the Messiah that had little in common with Judaism. This understanding, coupled with the seemingly anti-Jewish polemic of John’s Gospel, played a large part in the formulation of the doctrines which led to the persecution of the Jewish people by Christians in the name of Christianity, finally hardening into the
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