3- "Messiah" in the First Century- Jesus as a Messiah Part 2 of 3

In this episode (part 2 of 3 in the messiah series), Dr. Trevan Hatch explains what many Jews at the time of Jesus thought about the messiah and shows what Jewish literature in the first centuries BCE and CE said about the messiah. That messianic expectations did not include a suffering, dying messiah is crucial to understanding the events immediately following Jesus’ death. One must remember that not all Jews held a normative set of beliefs about the messiah’s divine status—whether he would be divine or mortal—nor did all Jews uniformly expect the messiah to accomplish a specific set of tasks. As we have seen, the various Jewish texts predating Jesus posited a wide variety of messianic expectations and ideas about the divine status of a future messiah. Beliefs and notions about the messiah common in early Jewish literature are as follows:

 He would be a preexistent figure with some divine qualities.

 All people would worship him.

 He would be a king.

 He would reestablish the Davidic dynasty.

 His kingdom would be everlasting.

 He would have authority over all nations.

 He would lead Israel.

 He would judge the wicked and overthrow Israel’s foreign enemies.

 He would be associated with righteousness.

 He would heal the sick, restore sight to the blind, and raise the dead

 For more depth on this topic, see Trevan Hatch's book, A Stranger in Jerusalem: Seeing Jesus as a Jew at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WGQJ6JM/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

 To see this episode with visuals on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/b-4ccSwJQws