Table of Contents

FOREWORD ix
INTRODUCTION 1

I. The Kingdom in Which He Reigned 5
1. The Split 9
2. Southern Kingdom 13
3. Northern Kingdom 21
4. The Samaritans 27
5. ‘Salvation is of the Jews’ 35

II. Against the Lord & His Anointed 41
1. The Maccabees 45
2. Monarchy and Rome 51
3. The Procurators 59

III. ‘Woe to You Scribes and Pharisees’ 67
1. Sadduccees 71
2. Pharisees 77
3. Priesthood 91
4. The Sanhedrin 99

IV. The Tetragrammaton – YHWH 109
1. The Movement of Revelation 113
2. ‘I am who I am’ 125
3. Shekhinah 137

V. The Messiah 147
1. Development of the Messianic Concept – Pentateuch to the Prophets 153
2. Development of the Messianic Concept – Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha 167
3. Son of Man 179
4. Messianic Expectations at the Time of the One 199
5. The Mystery of the One 221

EPILOGUE: The Mystery Unveiled 249

APPENDICES 257
Appendix A – Kings of the Jews – A Timeline 259
Appendix B – Maccabee Genealogy 263
Appendix C – Herodian Genealogy 265

ABBREVIATIONS 267
BIBLIOGRAPHY 269