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“Messiah” is one of the most contested terms in Christian reflection, with many people reading the concept back into early Old Testament texts. In The One Who Is to Come Joseph Fitzmyer offers up an alternative perspective, carefully tracing the emergence of messianism in Judaism to a much later date—the second century BC. The One Who Is to Come begins with a linguistic discussion of the term...

Important, however, is the use of the noun משיח itself, which occurs thirty-nine times in the MT of the Old Testament.17 Once it may refer to Saul’s shield as an anointed object, or perhaps to Saul himself (2 Sam 1:21); the text is unclear, and its meaning is debated by commentators.18 Moreover, in two instances interpreters question whether the term is used of the people of Israel as a whole or of their (unnamed) reigning king: Hab 3:13; Ps 28:8.19 Otherwise, in the vast majority of its occurrences,
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