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Messiah ben Joseph. The Messiah ben Joseph226 or bEphraim or more rarely bManasseh227 is first attested in literature in the 2nd cent. A.D.228 Ref. to this remarkable figure are few, esp. in the Tannaitic period. In contrast to the Messiah bDavid, who is anointed for kingly rule, the Messiah bJoseph is anointed for military action and is thus called משׁוח מלחמה, Pesikt. r., 8 (30a); Gn. r., 99, 2 on 48:20; Nu. r., 14, 1 on 7:48 (Wünsche, 341).229 There is a tradition in Setter Eliyyahu Rabba,
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