The Death of Messiah: Twenty Articles That Address a Subject of Grief, Hope, and Ultimate Triumph

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, renowned leader of the Habad movement for more than 40 years, who died in 1994, will take his place in the long line of Jewish Messiah pretenders. When a "messiah"... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1880226588
• ISBN13: 9781880226582
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Lederer Messianic Pubns
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.5" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

Great treatment of expansive subject

Various Jewish Christian authors explore aspects of themessianic hopes/doctrine held over Jewish history, Discussion includes messianic texts in the Tanakh, the Dead Sea scrolls, time calculations, Jewish objections to Jesus, Messianic Jewish Believers in Israel. It also includes discussion of the shocking view of those Lubavitcher Hasidic Jews who held now-deceased Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson to be the Messiah. "In its attempt to prove that Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson was the potential Messiah, Habad has used biblical texts and messianic ideas that up until a few decades ago were not even whispered in hiding places," points out Tsvi Sadan in Chapter 11. Interesting reading indeed, for those interested in Jewish messianic ideas, biblical foundations for such... and who want to learn of One whose coming was in accord with Jewish tradition, Scripture and validated historically. Enjoy!