title: The Messiah in the New Testament in the Light of Rabbinical Writings
author: Risto Santala
description: This volume follows our presentation of the Messiah in the Old Testament. It shows the roots of Christian faith in the light of the oldest and least-censored normative Jewish sources.
zlib_text: THE GREEK ORTHODOX THEOLOGICAL REVIEW 
  Vol. 44, Nos. 1-4,1999 
  "Above all his Friends and throughout the 
  Ages" - Paradoxical Language in the Old 
  Testament Messianic Prophecies* 
  REV. D R . EUGEN PENTIUC 
  Kafka once wrote that "Messiah will come one day later than he 
  was announced." And the author of The Castle is right on point. No 
  matter how great our desire is to know the time and circumstances in 
  which the long-waited and repeatedly promised Messiah would come, 
  we might never be able to give a sure, satisfying answer for as soon 
  as we are close to the hour of truth another question would surface 
  and the Messiah, God's mysterious emissary, will always be one step 
  ahead of us. 
  For Christians, the Old Testament is relevant, among other rea­
  sons, because it contains a considerable number of Messianic 
  prophecies, inspired sayings pertaining to the person and activity of 
  the Anointed One. "Messiah," mashiah, in Hebrew means "anointed." 
  The Septuagint, the oldest translation 