An edited version of Appendix IX from Alfred Edersheim's Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah. Here Edersheim has collected an extensive list of passages from the Hebrew Bible which were seen as referring to the Messiah in one or more of the works of the ancient rabbinic literature. In this edited version, the only change from Edersheim's original work is to print out the biblical references in full, so that the reader can immediately see what each passage says. In this Kindle edition, foreign words have been transliterated and italicized.
Alfred Edersheim was an evangelical Anglican biblical scholar and expert on the Greek Old Testament.
A Jewish Christian, he was perhaps the foremost authority of his time on Judaism in the time of the New Testament. He was critical of scholars' tendency to reject Moses' authorship of the Pentateuch, and described liberal trends in biblical scholarship as fraud that shook "the whole basis of our religion.
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