Glossary Term
Risk: Critical- Approved rendering
- משיח
- Transliteration
- mashiach
Messiah
CRITICAL: the unavoidable and correct word, but Rabbinic Judaism holds a specific, developed messianic job description (Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Kings 11-12) - a Davidic king who rebuilds the Temple, ingathers all exiles, and establishes universal peace within his own reign. Since Jesus did not visibly accomplish these in the first century, the standard Christian answer (a completed first coming, a future second coming) is a genuinely novel interpretive move that must be taught explicitly, not assumed.
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