The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah

By Edersheim, Alfred

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Title:	The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah
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Preface: In presenting these volumes to the reader, I must offer an explanation, - though I would fain hope that such may not be absolutely necessary. The title of this book must not be understood as implying any pretence on my part to write a ?Life of Christ? in the strict sense. To take the lowest view, the materials for it do not exist. Evidently the Evangelists did not intend to give a full record of even the outward events in that History; far less could they have thought of compassing the sphere or sounding the depths of the Life of Him, Whom they present to us as the God-Man and the Eternal Son of the Eternal Father. Rather must the Gospels be regarded as four different aspects in which the Evangelists viewed the historical Jesus of Nazareth as the fulfillment of the Divine promise of old, the Messiah of Israel and the Saviour of man, and presented Him to the Jewish and Gentile world for their acknowledgment as the Sent of God, Who revealed the Father, and was Himself the Way to Him, the Truth, and the Life. And this view of the Gospel-narratives underlies the figurative representation of the Evangelist in Christian Symbolism.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents About This Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. ii Title Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 1 Preface to the First Edition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 2 Preface to the Second and Third Editions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 8 List of Authorities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 12 List of Abbreviations and References to Rabbinic Writings.. . . . . . . . . . p. 473 p. 478 Introductory. The Preparation for the Gospel; the Jewish world in the days of Christ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 478 CHAPTER I. THE JEWISH WORLD IN THE DAYS OF CHRIST - THE JEWISH DISPERSION IN THE EAST.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 488 CHAPTER II. THE JEWISH DISPERSION IN THE WEST - THE HELLENISTS - ORIGIN OF HELLENIST LITERATURE IN THE GREEK TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE - CHARACTER OF THE SEPTUAGINT.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 499 CHAPTER III. THE OLD FAITH PREPARING FOR THE NEW - DEVELOPMENT OF HELLENIST THEOLOGY: THE APOCRYPHA, ARISTEAS, ARISTOBULUS, AND THE PSEUDEPIGRAPHIC WRITINGS.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 505 CHAPTER IV. PHILO OF ALEXANDRIA, THE RABBIS, AND THE GOSPELS - THE FINAL DEVELOPMENT OF HELLENISM IN ITS RELATION TO RABBINISM AND THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. JOHN.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 518 CHAPTER V. ALEXANDRIA AND ROME - THE JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN THE CAPITALS OF WESTERN CIVILISATION.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 529 CHAPTER VI. POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS LIFE OF THE JEWISH DISPERSION IN THE WEST - THEIR UNION IN THE GREAT HOPE OF THE COMING DELIVERER.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 536 CHAPTER VII. IN PALESTINE - JEWS AND GENTILES IN 'THE LAND' - THEIR MUTUAL RELATIONS AND FEELINGS - 'THE WALL OF SEPARATION.'. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 543 CHAPTER VIII. TRADITIONALISM, ITS ORIGIN, CHARACTER, AND LITERATURE - THE MISHNAH AND TALMUD - THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST - THE DAWN OF A NEW DAY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . From the Manger in Bethlehem to the Baptism in Jordan.. . . . . . . . . . . p. 556 CHAPTER I. IN JERUSALEM WHEN HEROD REIGNED. . . . . . . . . . p. 556