03-30-2010, 09:25 PM
Shlama akhay,
WHAT THE RABBONIM SAY ABOUT MOSHIACH, by Douglas Pyle
I bought this a couple months back, read it quickly and passed it on to share. i recently received it back, and after going over it again a bit slower, find it to be a really great testimony towards Yeshuwa as the Messiah. there are ample witnesses from the TN"K, Talmuds, Midrashim, rabbonim, targumim, etc. that display the ancient Hebrew perception of Messiah so very well. the book never actually mentions Yeshuwa, but it doesn't have to, since it is so clear from examples given who the Messiah would have to be.
some of the actual passages from the TN"K wherein the rabbonim relate to Messiah i had personally never considered before, so it is interesting to see their method of exegesis -- very similar in style of Paulus', i noticed. i'd like to compare with the AN"K and see if those derivations can still be applied, and also with the targum readings for those places, just to try to get an idea as to how they came up with some of them.
it is not as comprehensive in nature as Raphael Patai's THE MESSIAH TEXTS, which is also a very great compilation, so this book is easier to get through in one setting.
Chayim b'Moshiach,
Jeremy
WHAT THE RABBONIM SAY ABOUT MOSHIACH, by Douglas Pyle
I bought this a couple months back, read it quickly and passed it on to share. i recently received it back, and after going over it again a bit slower, find it to be a really great testimony towards Yeshuwa as the Messiah. there are ample witnesses from the TN"K, Talmuds, Midrashim, rabbonim, targumim, etc. that display the ancient Hebrew perception of Messiah so very well. the book never actually mentions Yeshuwa, but it doesn't have to, since it is so clear from examples given who the Messiah would have to be.
some of the actual passages from the TN"K wherein the rabbonim relate to Messiah i had personally never considered before, so it is interesting to see their method of exegesis -- very similar in style of Paulus', i noticed. i'd like to compare with the AN"K and see if those derivations can still be applied, and also with the targum readings for those places, just to try to get an idea as to how they came up with some of them.
it is not as comprehensive in nature as Raphael Patai's THE MESSIAH TEXTS, which is also a very great compilation, so this book is easier to get through in one setting.
Chayim b'Moshiach,
Jeremy