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The Jewish Messiah: A Critical History of the Messianic Idea among the Jews from the Rise of the Maccabees to the Closing of the Talmud is unavailable, but you can change that!

The object of The Jewish Messiah is twofold. It endeavors to exhibit the doctrine concerning the Messiah as it was held among the Jews in the centuries during which Christianity appeared; and, as subsidiary to this main purpose, it seeks to introduce the English reader to the apocalyptic and kindred literature. He divides his study into two parts: “Sources” and “History.” Before diving into the...

class together Joel (about 870 B.C.),1 Amos (about 800 B.C.), and Hosea (about 784 B.C.); for their descriptions of the future, though varied to suit the occasion and purpose of their prophecies, are essentially similar, and agree in the total absence of a Messiah, or personal mediator, in the inauguration of the ideal blessedness. Notwithstanding this deficiency, the main features of the Messianic expectation, as it existed in later times, are sketched with sufficient distinctness. First must come
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