Is Jesus the predicted messiah?

Is Jesus Christ the predicted Messiah of the Hebrew Scriptures?

 

End Notes

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1. Floyd Hamilton, The Basis of Christian Faith (New York: Harper and Row Publishers, 1964), p.160.2. Jakob Jocz, The Jewish People and Jesus Christ (Reprinted; Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1979), p.205.3. Raphael Patai, The Messiah Texts (Detroit: Wayne State Univ. Press, 1979), p.434. Ibid., p.39.5. Danile J.Lasker, Jewish Philosophical Polemics Against Christianity in the Middle Ages (New York: KTAV Publishing House Inc., 1977) p.4.6. Gerald Sigal, The Jew and the Christian Missionary: A Jewish Response to Missionary Christianity ( New York: KTAV Publishing House Inc.,1981) p.XV of Introduction.7. Ibid., p XVI of Introduction.8. Isaac Troki, Faith Strengthened (New York: Hermon Press, 1970), p.96.9. Sigal, op. cit., p.23.10. Franz Delitzsch, The Prophecies of Isaiah, Vol. 1 (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub.Co., 1949) p.217.11. Arthur W. Kac, The Messianic Hope (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1975), p.138.12. Harry Rimmer, The Magnificence of Jesus (Grand Rapids: Wm. B.Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1947) pp.124-125.13. Kac., op.cit., p.140.14. Troki, op. cit., pp.96-97.15. Isaiah 7:16.16. Isaiah 7:17.17. H.A. Ironside, Isaiah, (Neptune, New Jersey: Loizeaux Brothers Inc. , 1952), pp.46-47.18. These two sources provide excellent scholarship on this topic. Franz Delitzsch, The Prophecies of Isaiah Vol.1 (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1949) and George Adam Smith, The Book of Isaiah, Vol. 1 (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1927).19. Sigal, op.cit., p.26.20. Samuel Levine, You Take Jesus, I’ll Take God, (Los Angeles: Hamoroh Press, 1980), p. 3921. Troki, op.cit. p.104.22. David Baron, Rays of Messiah’s Glory: Christ in the Old Testament (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1955), p.3823. Levine, loc.cit24. Ibid., p.4125. Sigal, op.cit., p.20.26. B.K. Kuiper, The Church in History (Grand Rapids: Wm B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.,1951) pp.85-8927. Ibid., p.86.28. Troki, op.cit., p.274.29. E.W. Hengstenberg, Christology of the Old Testament (Reprint ed.; Grand Rapids: Kregel Publications, 1970) p.43.30. Kac, op.cit., pp.78,79.31. Alfred Edersheim, The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah (3rd ed. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1971) p.716.32. Kac, op.cit, p. 132.33. Levine, op.cit. p.49.34. J.Barton Payne, Encyclopedia of Biblical Prophecy (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1973) p.383.35. Adam Clarke, Clarke’s Commentary, Vol.IV (New York: Abingdon Cokesbury Press, n.d.) p.602.36. Harold Hoehner, Chronological Aspects of the Life of Christ (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Pub. House, 1977 ) p.138.37. Clarke,loc.cit38. Ibid., p.603.39. Ibid., p.60240. Sigal, op.cit., p.110.41. Hengstenberg, op. cit., p.419.42. Sigal, op.cit., pp. 110-111.43. Hengstenberg, op.cit. p.417.44. Troki, op. cit., p.200.45. Ibid., p.204.46. Sigal, op.cit., p.111.47. William E. Biederwolf, The Second Coming Bible (Reprint ed., Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1977) p.222.48. Daniel 9:26.49. Kac, op. cit., p.34.50. Levine, op. cit., p.35.51. Troki, op. cit., p.164.52. Edersheim, op. cit., p.735.53. Sigal, op. cit., pp. 76,77.54. Troki, op.cit., pp. 163-164.55. Robert Young, Young’s Analytical Concordance to the Bible (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub.Co., 1973) p.311. 56. Troki, op. cit., p.168.57. Payne, op. cit., p.431.58. A. Lukyn Williams, Christian Evidences for the Jewish People, Vol. 1 (Cambridge: W. Heffer and Sons Limited, 1910) p.188.59. Patai, op. cit., pp.16,17.60. Ibid., p.17.61. Samson H. Levey, The Messiah: An Aramaic Interpretation; The Messianic Exegesis of the Targum (Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1974), p.92.62. Troki, op. cit., p.105.63. Sigal, op. cit., pp.29-31.64. C.F. Keil and F. Delitzsch, Keil and Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament, Isaiah Vol. 1 (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1949) p.252.65. Hengstenberg, op. cit., p.179.66. Ibid., p. 182.67. Young, op. cit., pp.294-295.68. Troki., loc.cit.69. Hengstenberg, op. cit., p.178.70. Ibid., p.183.71. David Berger, The Nazzahon Vetus as found in the Jewish Christian Debate in the High Middle Ages (Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1979) p. 102.72. Troki, op. cit., p.106.73. Levine, op.cit., p.54.74. Keil and Delitzsch, op. cit., p.251.75. Hengstenberg, op.cit., p.79.76. Sigal, op.cit., p.95.77. Levine, op.cit., p.34.78. Sigal, op. cit., p.97.79. Ibid.80. Ibid.81. Keil and Delitzsch, op. cit., p.319.82. Canon H.D.M. Spence and Joseph S. Exell, Pulpit Commentary, Psalms, Vol. 1 (New York: Funk and Wagnalls Co. n.d.) p.153.83. John Gill, Dr. Gill’s Commentary – Old Testament Judges – Psalms, Vol.2 (Reprint ed: London, England: William Hill Collingridge, 1954), pp. 950-951.84. Rachmiel Fryland, Messianic Prophecy – unpublished manuscript – 1980.85. Berger, op.cit., p.155.86. Hengstenberg, op.cit., p.86.87. Ibid., op. cit. p.247. 88. Kac, op. cit., pp.75-76.89. Levine, op. cit., pp. 24-25.90. Ibid., p.25.91. Sigal, op. cit., p.37.92. Hengstenberg, op. cit., p.253.93. Levine, op. cit., p.253.94. Ibid., pp.27,28.95. Sigal., op cit., pp. 66-67.96. Ibid., pp. 38-39.97. Levine., op. cit., p.28.98. Sigal., op cit., pp. 54-55.99. Clarke, Clarke’s Commentary, Vol. 5., op cit., p.326.100. Levine, loc.cit101. Young, Young’s Analytical Concordance to the Bible, op. cit p. 853.102. Sigal., op. cit., pp. 53,54.103. Edwin Oster, Hermeneutics, unpublished material .Notes to a lecture series at Seattle Bible Training School.104. Young, op. cit., p. 712.105. Ibid, p.218.106. Sigal, op. cit., p. 80.107. Ibid., p.82.108. Ibid.109. Patai, op. cit., p.166.110. Sigal, op. cit., pp. 80,81.111. Levine, op. cit., p.18.112. Young, op. cit., p.752.113. Geoffrey Wigoder Ed. Encyclopedia Dictionary of Judaica (New York: Keter Publishing House Jerusalem LTD., 1974) pp. 414, 584-586.114. John Bowker, The Targums and Rabbinic Literature (London, England: Cambridge University Press, 1969) p.122.115. J.W. Ethridge, The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Ussiel on the Pentateuch, Vol. 1 (New York: KTAV Publishing House Inc., 1968), p. 279.116. Ibid., p.331.117. Samson H. Levy, The Messiah: An Aramaic Interpretation; The Messianic Exegesis of the Targum, op. cit., p.11.118. Ethridge, op. cit., p.309.119. A.Cohen, The Teachings of Maimonides (London: George Routledge and Sons Ltd., 1927), p.221. 120. Edersheim, op.cit., p.716.121. Kac, op.cit., p.80.122. William G. Braude, Pesikta Rabbati (New Haven, Conn: Yale University, 1968), pp.678-680.123. Theodore Laetsch, Bible Commentary: Jeremiah (St. Louis: Concordia Pub. House, 1970), p.193. 124. Edersheim, op.cit., p.719.125. J.F. Stenning Ed.., The Targum of Isaiah (London, England: Clerendon Pub. House, 1970), p.28.126. Ibid., p.32.127. Ibid., p.40.128. “Seder Nezikim”, The Babylonian Talmud, trans. I. Epstein, Vol.3 (London, England: The Soncino Press, 1935) pp.626-627.129. Stenning, loc.cit.130. Ibid., p.110131. Ibid., p.148.132. Levey, op.cit., p.63.133. Ibid., p.66.134. Baron, Rays of Messiah’s Glory, op.cit., p.271.135. A.Phillips, Machzor For Rash Hashana and Yom Kippur (Revised ed. New York: Hebrew Pub. Co. 1931),p.239.136. Laetsch, loc.cit.137. “Seder Nezikin”, The Babylonian Talmud, op.cit., p.668.138. “Seder Mo’ed”, The Babylonian Talmud, trans. I. Epstein, Vol.4 (London, England: Soncino Press, 1938) p.10.139. Levey, op.cit., p.92.140. “Seder Zeraim”, The Babylonian Talmud, trans I. Epstein (London, England: Soncino Press, 1938) p.350.141. “Seder Mo’ed”, The Babylonian Talmud, trans. I. Epstein, Vol.3 (London, England: Soncino Press, 1938) p.246.142. Edersheim, p. 710.143. Ibid.144. B.K. Kuiper, The Church in History (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 1951) , p.31.145. Henry M. Morris, Many Infallible Proofs (San Diego: Creation Life Pub., 1971) , p. 32.146. Ibid., p.29.147. Pinchas Lapide, The Resurrection of Jesus, trans. Wilhelm C. Linss (Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1983.) 148. Ibid., p.149.149. Ibid., p.92.150. Ibid., p.152.151. Ibid., p.20,21.152. Thomas Arnold, Sermons on the Christian Life – Its Hopes, Its Fears and Its Close (6th ed. London: n.n. 1859), p.324.153. Wilbur Smith, Therefore Stand (Boston: W.A. Wilde Co., 1945) p.425.