Messiah
Texts
- 2 Samuel 7
- Psalm 2
- Psalm 72
- Psalm 89
- Psalm 110
- Isaiah 9:1-17 + 11:1-9 + 32:1-5
- Jeremiah 23:1-8
Additional Resources
- Lawrence H. Schiffman, “The Concept of the Messiah in Second Temple and Rabbinic Literature”, Review & Expositor 84/2 (1987): 235-246
- R.E. Clements, “The messianic hope in the Old Testament”, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 43 (1989): 3-19
- L.W. Hurtado, “The Origins of the Worship of Christ”, Themelios 19.2 (1994): 4-8
- R.W.L. Moberly, “The Christ of the Old and New Testaments”, ch. 12 in The Cambridge Companion to Jesus, ed. by M. Bockmuehl (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 184-199.
- Matthew V. Novenson, “The Jewish messiahs, the Pauline Christ, and the Gentile question”, Journal of Biblical Literature 128/2 (2009): 357-373
See the “messiah” articles in the Jewish Encyclopedia, Encyclopaedia Judaica, and the Catholic Encyclopedia
See also on the article on the “Protoevangelium” (Genesis 3:15) by R.W.L. Moberly, “What Will Happen to the Serpent? Unending Struggle, Hermeneutics, and the Interpretation of Genesis 3.15”, in The Temple in Text and Tradition: A Festschrift in Honour of Robert Hayward, ed. by R. Timothy McLay (LSTS, 83; London: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2015), pp. 13-34.