Tuesday, August 25, 2009

More On The Term Mashiach

So much nonsense has been developed by white people to justify the silly idea that someone like Jesus could have been considered to have been the awaited Davidic messiah. The original Jewish understanding was that mashiach meant anointed king.

But here's an argument you will never see any other Jew develop (owing to the fact that almost no one thinks the Samaritan tradition is older than the Jewish one).

The Samaritans avoid the term because it is not used in the Torah. The one to come is defined as "like Moses."

Yet if the Samaritan conception is the original one the Jewish emphasis on a mashiach is a deliberate stressing that the one to come WOULD BE a figure like David (the Samaritans were far less enthused about their kings from the so-called "first Commonwealth period).

The point is that Jesus COULD be argued to have been announcing himself as the one like Moses but not the expected Jewish messiah

Maybe that's why the Jews in the Gospel of John accuse him of being a Samaritan ...


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