Waiting for the Messiah
A Contemporary Jewish Scholar Takes a Look at Messianic Expectations Throughout Jewish History. By Rabbi Dan Cohn-Sherbok, Professor of Judaism, University of Wales. For thousands of years, the Jewish people have longed for messianic deliverance. Sustained by this belief the community has endured persecution and suffering, confident they will ultimately be rescued from earthly travail. Such expectations began with the Hebrew Bible. Scripture foretells a future redemption of the Jewish people that will be accomplished by the Messiah, an anointed agent of the Lord. For the prophets, such...
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