extraneous to the Old Testament. I have chosen the solution of using the word ‘anointed’ where the Old-Testament Hebrew uses mašiaḥ and the word ‘Messiah’ for the figure without a precise name who dominates some passages of the Old Testament and the pseudepigraphical literature, that figure who is supposed to come in the future and bring salvation to the people of Israel, or even to all people. I reserve the term ‘Messiah’, which by the way should not be seen as a simple phonetic adaptation of
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