Day: August 10, 2021

In preparing my next post on Nanine Charbonnel’s Jésus-Christ, sublime figure de papier I remarked that I had posted a few times along the lines of a theme her work explores: the idea of a suffering and dying messiah among Jewish circles prior to the Christian era. I began to list those posts but found way too many to mention there so I’m posting the list separately here.

Posts addressing the question of the Jewishness of a suffering and dying messiah:

1. How Isaiah’s Suffering Servant and Isaac’s Sacrifice Together Prepared for Jesus Christ 2020-08-14
2. Horbury Argued Similarly: Jewish Messianic Ideas Explain Christianity 2019-03-02
   
3. A Suffering Messiah Before Christianity? — the other side of the question 2019-01-20
   
4. Questioning the Claim of a Pre-Christian Suffering Messiah 2019-01-20
   
5. Why a Saviour Had to Suffer and Die? Martyrdom Beliefs in Pre-Christian Times 2019-01-04
   
6. Summing Up a Case for Pre-Christian Exegesis of Dying and Suffering Messiahs by J. Jeremias (8) 2018-12-19
   
7. The 10th Testimony for a Dying Messiah Before Christianity (7) 2018-12-18
   
8. Rabbinic Traditions that the Messiah was to Suffer? (6) 2018-12-17
   
9. Jewish Pre-Christian Prophecies of Suffering Servant Messiah (5) 2018-12-16
   
10. Jewish Understandings of a Suffering Messiah before the Christian Era (4) 2018-12-15
    
11. Evidence of a Suffering Messiah Concept before Christianity (1) 2018-12-14
    
12. A Pre-Christian Jewish Suffering Messiah (2) 2018-12-13
    
13. Evidence of a Suffering Messiah Concept before Christianity (1) 2018-12-11
    
14. How Early Did Some Jews Believe in a Slain Messiah son of Joseph? 2017-04-19
    
15. Suffering and Dying Messiahs: Typically Jewish Beliefs 2017-04-16
    
16. How Did Daniel Understand Isaiah’s Suffering Servant? 2015-11-12
    
17. Isaiah’s Suffering Servant Before Christianity 2015-11-10
    
18. Suffering Messiah Is a Very Jewish Idea 2015-08-26
    
19. From Israel’s Suffering (Isaiah’s Servant) to Atoning Human/Messianic Sacrifice (Daniel) 2014-11-24
    
20. The Influence of Isaiah’s Suffering Servant Before Christianity 2014-11-23
    
21. Jewish Expectations of a Slain Messiah — the Early Evidence 2014-11-08
    
22. Messiah to be Killed in Pre-Christian Jewish Expectation — the Late Evidence 2014-11-04
    
23. The Dying Messiah Before Christianity 2014-09-14
    
24. The Evolution of the Son of Man, the Human & Divine Messiah 2014-07-08
    
25. So some Jews did expect a suffering Messiah? 2013-01-22
    
26. How Could a Crucified Jesus Be Identified With God? 2013-01-12
    
27. Does the notion of a crucified messiah need a historical easter experience? 2011-04-05
    
28. Jewish scriptures as inspiration for a Slain Messiah 2010-07-26
    
29. Jesus displaces Isaac: midrashic creation of the biblical Jesus . . . (Offering of Isaac . . . #6) 2008-06-06

Let’s add for good measure our recent post on William Wrede’s view of Paul and some earlier Vridar posts that may serve as good companions of that one:

1. Only One Explanation: Paul Believed in a Divine Christ “Before Jesus” 2021-08-07
   
2. How Paul Found Christ Crucified – “on a Tree” – In the Scriptures 2020-06-12
   
3. Jesus supplants Isaac — the contribution of Paul 2008-06-26