Abstract
The messianic dream owes its roots to biblical prophecy and its rich development to generations of sensitive and creative exegetes anxiously awaiting redemption. Scripture itself is less than generous in providing detailed information about the end of days, so ungenerous, in fact, that some modern scholars have expressed skepticism about the very appearance of a messianic figure in the biblical text. While this skepticism is excessive, it reflects a reality which troubled the ancients no less than the moderns and left room for the diversity and complexity that mark the messianic idea by late antiquity.
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Religious studies,History,Cultural Studies
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1. “The Messiah of Ephraim and the Premature Exodus of the Tribe of Ephraim,” Harvard Theological Review68 (1975): 1–16. A Hebrew version of the article had appeared in Tarbiz40 (1971): 450–461, and has been reprinted in Heinemann's Aggadot ve-Toldoteihen(Jerusalem, 1974), pp. 131–141. References here will be to the version in HTRwhere the summary of earlier theories appears on pp. 1–6.
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