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The Messianic Idea in Israel (1955) is a book by Joseph Klausner.

Editions and translations

Originally published in Hebrew in Jerusalem: Hebrew University, 1955. First English ed. in New York: Macmillian, 1955. First British ed. in London: Allen and Unwin, 1956.

Table of Contents

Part I: The Messianic Idea in the Period of the Prophets

• Introduction
• I. Belief in the Messiah and the Messianic Expectation
• II. The Source and Beginnings of the Messianic Idea
• III. Allusions to the Messianic Idea in the Pentateuch and Former Prophets
• IV. Amos and Hosea
• V. Isaiah
• VI. Micah and Nahum
• VII. Zephaniah and Habakkuk
• VIII. Jeremiah
• IX. Ezekiel
• X. Obadiah
• XI. Hymns of the Exile in the Book of Psalms
• XII. Deutero-Isaiah
• XIII. Haggai and Zechariah
• XIV. Joel and Malachi
• XV. Psalms from the Period of the Second Temple
• XVI. Daniel
• XVII. General Survey

Part II: The Messianic Idea in the Books of the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha General Note A. The Messianic Idea in the Apocrypha

• I. Ben-Sira
• II. I Maccabees
• III. II Maccabees
• IV. Judith
• V. Tobit
• VI. The Apocryphal Baruch
• VII. The Wisdom of Solomon

B. The Messianic Idea in the Pseudepigrapha

• I. The “Ethiopic” Book of Enoch
• II. The Book of Jubilees
• III. The Testament of the Twelve Tribes
• IV. The Psalms of Solomon
• V. The Assumption of Moses
• VI. The Syriac Book of Baruch
• VII. The Pseudepigraphic (Fourth) Book of Ezra
• VIII. The Biblical Antiquities
• IX. The Sibylline Oracles
• X. The Greek Book of Baruch
• XI. The Slavonic Book of Enoch

C. General Survey

Part III: The Messianic Idea in the Period of the Tannaim General Note

• I. The Messianic Idea in the Tannaitic and Post-Tannaitic Periods (Introduction)
• II. The Messianic Age and the World to Come
• III. The “End” and the Messianic Age
• IV. The Prerequisites of Messiah’s Coming
• V. The Birth Pangs of Messiah
• VI. Elijah, the Forerunner of the Messiah
• VIII. The Ingathering of the Exiles and the Reception of Proselytes
• IX. Messiah ben Joseph and the War with Gog and Magog
• X. The Messianic Age and the Signs of the Messiah

Appendix: The Jewish and Christian Messiah Index