TABLE OF CONTENTS:
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