What do Jews believe about the Messiah?
Judaism in Five Minutes - Sarah Imhoff
Martin Kavka [+]
Florida State University
Martin Kavka is Professor and Chair of the Department of Religion at Florida State University. Now in the twilight of his career, he is most proud of his editing work, including (with Aline Kalbian) a decade as coeditor of the Journal of Religious Ethics, and (with Anne Dailey and Lital Levy) the volume Unsettling Jewish Knowledge: Text, Contingency, Desire (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023).
Description
This brief chapter answers the questions of what Jews think about the Messiah by describing the dominant Jewish idea of the Messiah at the time of Jesus, as well as a diversity of attitudes to messianism that Jews in the modern period have held.