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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...

more important in these verses (1–8), in which God speaks directly to Cyrus, is the emphasis given to the effect of Cyrus’s action on other peoples of the world who will come thereby to recognize that “the God of Israel” (45:3) is the only God: “I am the LORD, and there is no other” (45:6c). This instance of משיח is noteworthy in Deutero-Isaiah because it is the only place where the title appears, and not only in Deutero-Isaiah, but in the whole book of Isaiah. This solitary instance must be deliberate,

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