The Jewish Messiah (1877 Drummond), book

The Jewish Messiah: A Critical History of the Messianic Idea among the Jews from the Rise of the Maccabees to the Closing of the Talmud (1877) is a book by James Drummond.

Editions

Published in London: Longmans and Green, 1877. Reprinted in London: Longmans and Green, 1988.

Table of contents

• Book I: Sources
  • General Remarks
  • Chapter I: The Apocalyptic Literature
  • Chapter II: Lyrical Literature. The Psalms of Solomon
  • Chapter III: Haggadistic Literature. The Book of Jubilees, or Little Genesis
  • Chapter IV: The Targums
  • Chapter V: The Talmud, and Other Rabbinical Works
• Book II: History
  • Chapter I: Introductory
  • Chapter II: Sketch of the Messianic Idea as Exhibited in the Prophets
  • Chapter III: The Son of Sirach, Tobit, and Baruch
  • Chapter IV: Divisions of Time
  • Chapter V: Signs of the Last Times
  • Chapter VI: Forerunners of the Messiah
  • Chapter VII: Conception of the Ideal Kingdom without a Messiah
  • Chapter VIII: The Time of the Messiah's Appearance
  • Chapter IX: The Birth-place, Concealment, and Descent of the Messiah
  • Chapter X: Titles and Names of the Messiah
  • Chapter XI: The Nature of the Messiah
  • Chapter XII: The Last Enemies
  • Chapter XIII: General Character of the Messianic Reign
  • Chapter XIV: Place, Extent, and Duration of the Messiah's Kingdom
  • Chapter XV: Had the Kingdom a Distinctive Name?
  • Chapter XVI: Moral Nature of the Kingdom
  • Chapter XVII: The Conversion of the Gentiles
  • Chapter XVIII: The Return of the Scattered Israelites
  • Chapter XIX: Destruction of the Old Jerusalem, and Appearance of the New
  • Chapter XX: Earthly Blessedness
  • Chapter XXI: Behemoth and the Leviathan
  • Chapter XXII: Messiah Ben-Joseph, and the Sufferings of the Messiah
  • Chapter XXIII: Resurrection and Judgement
  • Chapter XXIV: General View of the Messianic Idea before the Time of Christ

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