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This book represents the fruit of a long process of study and reflection, a powerful but subtle synthesis, by one of the most eminent scholars of Second Temple Judaism. Far from a conventional narrative history, it is organized around themes and seeks to uncover the essence of Hebraic/Jewish religious thinking while confronting the phenomenon of its division into several “parties” and traditions....

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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