DAVID RUDOLPH One of the earliest publications of the modern Messianic Jewish community, The Messianic Jew, rolled off the printing press more than a hundred years ago in December 1910. Reading this journal, one is struck by the grand vision for Messianic Judaism that its authors articulated soon after the turn of the century. A straight line can be drawn between the dreams of these Jewish pioneers and the emergence of the twenty-first-century Messianic Jewish community. Introduction