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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...

is the term used of a historical king of Israel in any of the major prophets. Zedekiah of Judah is usually understood as the “LORD’s Anointed” in Lam 4:20, but in the Hebrew Scriptures that book is grouped not with the Prophets but with the Writings. Moreover, it is striking that Cyrus, the founder of the Achaemenid dynasty and king of Persia, is the only one called משיחו, “His Anointed One,” in the entire book of Isaiah (45:1). He is thus honored in Israel’s Scriptures because he allowed the Jews

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