TABLE OF CONTENTS: 
To the English reader 

INTRODUCTION 

THE MESSIAH IN SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH 
    The 'Theology of Fulfilment' controversy 
    Judaism's traditional stance 
    Christian study of Jewish sources 
    Our common heritage 

CHOOSING THE APPROPRIATE  METHOD OF STUDY 
    The difference between biblical and western ways of thinking 
    The difference betweenthe characters of the natural sciences and the humanities 
    Method, and the choice of the appropriate source material 

THE MESSIAH IN THE PENTATEUCH 
    The spirit of the messiah in the creation account 
    The proto-evangel  
    The messiah who will break down the hedge around the law 
    The messiah who will rule the nations 
    The Messiah as the Second Moses 
       - The Messiah as the Last Saviour 
       - Comparisons between Moses and Jesus. 
       - The character of the revelation of God to Moses. 
       - The name of the Lord as a sign of salvation 
       - Did Moses believe in an avenging God or in a God of mercy? 
       - The Prophet who will be conceived by the Holy Spirit 
    The Torah of Moses and the Messiah 
       - The Messiah's Torah and the future of the Law 
       - The Torah interpreted by the False Messiah Sabbatai Tsvi 
       - The basis of Paul's interpretation of the Torah 
    The Messiah, Prince of the Countenance 
       - Jacob sees the face of God 
       - Christ as the 'Prince of the Countenance' 
       - The Messiah, the Mimra or 'Word' of God 
       - The message of spiritual counsel associated with Penuel 
    The time of Christ's coming 
       - The Christ seen from afar 
       - Christ's first advent 
       - What the Jewish scholars think about the coming of the Messiah 
       - The destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple as a sign of the coming of the Messiah 

THE MESSIAH IN THE PSALMS 
       - What the Psalms have to say about Christ 
       - The Jews see the Messiah in the Psalms 
    Psalm 2 and Psalm 110 
       - The Messianic tone of the second Psalm 
       - The picture in Psalm 110 of the one sitting at the right hand of God 
    Psalm 22 as the interpreter of the suffering Messiah 
    Psalm 118 and the "stone which the builders rejected" 
    Psalm 102 and the return of the Messiah in his glory. 

THE MESSIAH IN THE PROPHETS 
    The general nature of the messianic office in the prophets 
    The prophets of the Northern Kingdom, Israel 
       - The prophet Amos 
       - The prophet Hosea 
       - The prophet Jonah, 
    The prophets of the Southern Kingdom, Judah 
       - The vision of Obadaiah, 
       - Joel's Messianic message 
       - Zephaniah 
       - The prophet Habakkuk 
       - The prophet Micah 
       - The prophet Isaiah 
       - Jeremiah, 
    The prophets who were active during the exile 
       - Ezekiel's Messianic message 
       - Daniel, 
    The prophets who appeared after the exile 
       - Haggai 
       - Zechariah 
       - The book of Malachi 

THE BIRTH AND THE CHARACTER   OF THE MESSIAH 

THE SUFFERING MESSIAH IN THE PROPHETS 

WHAT THEN SHALL WE SAY TO THIS? 

LITERATURE CONSULTED 

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