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The
Messiah Texts: Jewish Legends of Three Thousand Years
by Raphael Patai
Paperback Reprint edition (January 1989)
373 pages
Preface
Prologue
Introduction
1. The Biblical Preamble
2. Preexistence and Names of the Messiah
3. Early Messiahs
4. The Ancestry of the Messiah
5. The Waiting
6. Counting the Days
7. Hastening the End
8. Son of the Clouds
9. The Bird's Nest
10. Contest in Heaven
11. The Pangs of Times
12. The Suffering Messiah
13. The Mother of the Messiah
14. Elijah the Great Forerunner
15. Gog and Magog
16. Armilus
17. Messiah ben Joseph
18. Wars and Victories
19. The Ingathering and the Return of the Shekhina
20. The Triumph of the Lord
21. Resurrection
22. The Last Judgment
23. Messianic Jerusalem
24. Miraculous Fertility
25. The Banquet
26. New Worlds and a New Tora
27. Universal Blessings
28. Messiah Dreams
29. The Modern Postlude
30. Recapitulation
Appendix I: Prayers for the Coming of the Messiah
Appendix II: Maimonides on the Messiah
Appendix III: A Messiah Catechism
Appendix IV: The Pope's Letter
Appendix V: A Messianic Disputation
Appendix VI: Grimmelshausen's Account
Epilogue
Chronological List of Sources
Abbreviations and Annotated Bibliography
Index
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