Messiah ben Joseph 5.3 in the Pseudepigrapha
0Chapter 5 Part 3: In the Pseudepigrapha
∆ Date and origin
∆ T. Ben. 3.6–8. Joseph's son dies for the sins of the world
∆ Sibylline Oracles 5.256–259
∆ The Apocalypse of Ezra 7.28–29
∆ Joseph and Aseneth
∆ Ben Sira 46.1
∆ Summary
∆ End
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Messiah Ben Joseph, the slain Galilean (Jalali) Messiah, is the most enigmatic figure in Rabbinic Judaism and a vital figure in Jewish-Christian debate. A deeper understanding of him has profound implications for all who love the Bible.
This book proposes that he is not a rabbinic invention at all, but that his origins lie in the oldest strands of the Bible we follow from his origins in the book of Genesis, through the Pentateuch, the Prophets, the Psalms, the pseudepigrapha, the Dead Sea scrolls, the Targums, the New Testament and Church Fathers, the Talmud, the homiletics, the exegetic, and apocalyptic midrashim, the Zohar, and the medieval rabbis, down to Modern times.
The author:
David Mitchell is a biblical scholar, musicologist, and musical director. Originally from Scotland, he lives in Brussels where he is Director of Music in Holy Trinity Pro-Cathedral.
His writings centre around the Book of Psalms and the Messiah in the Hebrew Bible. The Message of the Psalter (1997) proposes that the Psalms were redacted to reflect an eschatological timetable similar to Zechariah 9-14. The Songs of Ascents (2015) traces Psalms 120-134 as liturgy from the day of their first performance to the last days of the second temple, with a reconstruction of their original music. Messiah ben Joseph (2016) is the first ever full-length study of the slain messiah of rabbinic Judaism, a figure which, Mitchell proposes, derives from the Pentateuch. Jesus the Incarnation of the Word (2021) looks at Jesus before Bethlehem, especially his genealogies and Melchizedek the priest.
He also publishes musical works. For more information, check his site brightmorningstar.org.