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Caesar's Messiah is a 2005 book by Joseph Atwill that argues that the New Testament Gospels were written by a group of individuals connected to the Flavian family of Roman emperors: Vespasian, Titus and Domitian. The authors were mainly Flavius Josephus, Berenice, and Tiberius Julius Alexander, [1] with contributions from Pliny the Elder. [2]
It was a common practice in the ancient Near East to confer kingship to new rulers by anointing them, rather than by crowning them. [6] It is in this context that the Hebrew term Māshīaḥ (Messiah, meaning "anointed") was originally used, referring to an eschatological figure who was expected to rise from the royal line of David and who would rule like a divine king, being God's 'anointed ...
Hugh Nibley combined etymology with literary symbolism when he explained that Mosiah is "a very interesting name, a combination of Moses and Yahweh, Jehovah." Nibley compared the Mosiah-led Nephite exodus out of the Land of Nephi to the exodus led by Moses, to the Puritan pilgrim exodus out of England, and the the Latter-day Saint exodus out of ...
Druze believe that Hamza ibn Ali was a reincarnation of Jesus, [75] and that Hamza ibn Ali is the true Messiah, who directed the deeds of the messiah Jesus "the son of Joseph and Mary", but when messiah Jesus "the son of Joseph and Mary" strayed from the path of the true Messiah, Hamza filled the hearts of the Jews with hatred for him - and for ...
Book titles are in both English and Hebrew, [12] and several Hebrew words such as shalom, Torah, kohen, Sheol, Gehinnom, etc. have been transliterated. [13] The publisher states the New Jerusalem Version distinguishes itself from most English Bibles by restoring the: Personal unutterable Hebrew name of God: יהוה; Hebrew name of the Messiah ...
The word إسلام ʾislām is a verbal noun derived from s-l-m, meaning "submission" (i.e. entrusting one's wholeness to a higher force), which may be interpreted as humility. "One who submits" is signified by the participle مسلم, Muslim (fem. مسلمة, muslimah). [6] The word is given a number of meanings in the Qur'an.
In Judaism, the messiah will be a future Jewish king from the line of David and redeemer of the Jewish people and humanity. [1] [6] In Christianity, Jesus is the messiah, [note 1] the savior, the redeemer, and God. [1] [3] In Islam, Jesus was a prophet and the messiah of the Jewish people who will return in the end times. [3]
Yehuda Eisenstein records in his book Otzer Yisrael that followers of Hasidic Rebbes will sometimes express hope that their leader will be revealed as the awaited messiah. [ 24 ] [ page needed ] According to research by Israeli scholar Rachel Elior , there was a focus on messianism in Chabad during the lifetime of the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe ...