The Messiah before Jesus
Subtitle: The Suffering Servant of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: October 12, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9780520215924
Subjects: Criticism & exegesis of sacred texts; Judaism; New Testament; The historical Jesus; BCE to c 500 CE; Judaism - Rituals & Practice; Thanksgiving Psalms; Dead Sea scrolls; Religion - Church History; Religion; Ancient Rome; Middle East; Messiahship; Antiquities & Archaeology; Christianity - General; Judaism - History; Religion / General; Servant of Jehovah; Christianity; Jesus Christ; Origin; Relation to the New Testament
First sentence: The time: A day in January in the year 18 BCE.
Description: "In a world that challenges notions that have dominated New Testament scholarship for more than a hundred years, Israel Knohl gives startling evidence for a messianic precursor to Jesus, who is described as the "Suffering Servant" in recently published fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Messiah before Jesus clarifies many formerly incomprehensible aspects of Jesus' life and confirms the story in the New Testament about his messianic awareness.

Knohl shows that at around the time of Jesus' birth, there came into being a concept of "catastrophic" messianism in which the suffering, humiliation, and death of the Messiah were regarded as an integral part of the redemptive process."--BOOK JACKET.