The New Testament Model of the Messiah (IBRI Research Reports Book 6) (English Edition)

Various attempts were made in the centuries following the completion of the Old Testament to understand its prophecies regarding the coming Messiah -- by the rabbis, the Qumran community, the authors of the apocalyptic literature, and the writers of the New Testament. Here these attempts are compared with the Old Testament data to show the striking superiority of the New Testament model in fitting certain paradoxical features.