Messiah ben Joseph

"Messiah ben Joseph, the slain Galilean messiah, is the most enigmatic figure in Rabbinic Judaism and a vital figure in Jewish-Christian debate. A deeper understanding of him has profound implications for all who love the Bible. This book proposes that his is not a rabbinic invention at all. Instead it traces him from his origins in the book of Genesis, through the Pentateuch, the Prophets, the Psalms, the Pseudepigrapha, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Targums, the New Testament and Church Fathers, the Talmud, the homiletic, exegetic, and apocalyptic midrashim, the Zohar, and the medieval rabbis, down to modern times."--Page 4 of cover