Word: messiahship
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...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...
...called Yeshua, is proud to be known as "Mother's boy." Miriam calls him "tinoki" (baby) and dresses him in spotless white linen. She cannot help, as he grows older, setting him apart from his brothers, the sons she bears to Joseph.* When Yeshua begins to sense his Messiahship (in a miraculous answer to prayer at 13), Miriam's life becomes a struggle between motherly joy and motherly foreboding. After the miracle of the wine at the wedding in Cana, she loses sight of him until just before the end. Asch brings her into the Garden of Gethsemane...
...this anti Christian searcher after Christ tells what might have happened to Jesus if He did not really die on the cross. As with George Moore's hero in The Brook Kerith, the agony of the crucifixion and the coma of the burial stripped the Man of his Messiahship. Moore's hero in his revulsion thought he had been wrong: Lawrence's, that his mission was finished. Lawrence's Man showed himself to his disciples but would have nothing more to do with them; he wanted merely to live, and in a fuller way which...