Word: messiahship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Allegro boldly suggests may prefigure the Last Supper and Christian Communion. They expected the imminent end of the world and the coming of two Messiahs-a priest and a king of the Davidic line. Into the latter role, says Allegro, Jesus would fit perfectly-later to have the priestly messiahship added to the kingly...
...Rabbi Bernstein denies that the new attention Jews have come to pay to the figure of Jesus can ever lead to accepting him as the Messiah. The very idea of Messiahship, he says, is undergoing a change. Though the Orthodox still believe in a personal Messiah and pray for his coming each day, "a large segment of the liberal Jewish community has discarded the notion of a single messianic personality who is to save mankind ... In its place they affirm their faith in a messianic era which is to be achieved by the cooperative efforts of good...