The Scepter and the Star: Messianism in Light of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Biblia.com)

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In The Scepter and the Star John J. Collins offers an up-to-date review of Jewish messianic expectations around the time of Jesus, in light of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Collins breaks these expectations into three categories: Davidic, priestly, and prophetic. Based on a small number of prophetic oracles and reflected in the various titles and names assigned to the messiah, the Davidic model holds a...

Ancient Judaism did not have a creed that defined orthodoxy, in the manner of later Christianity. The reason that some notions, such as the expectation of a Davidic messiah, were widely shared, was that by this time (approximately 150 BCE to 70 CE) a corpus of scriptures had come to be accepted as authoritative in Judaism. Eventually, these scriptures took the form of the canonical Hebrew Bible that we know today.

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