The Messiah’s Life

The Jewish writings have much to say about the Messiah. Very little, however, is written about His identifying characteristics, aside from His being from the family of David and bringing peace. Gershom Scholem agreed with this when he wrote, “Yet the figure of the Messiah, in whom the fulfillment of redemption is concentrated, remains peculiarly vague” (The Messianic Idea in Judaism, p. 17).