The Suffering Servant
By the time the Talmud was compiled in the 4th Century, Jewish sages had developed an interesting concept. They began to talk of an individual called Messiah Son of Joseph or "Mashiach ben Yosef", in Hebrew.This character was meant to be linked not only to the Suffering Servant of Isaiah 53, but also to other prophecies in such places as Zechariah, that spoke of a Messiah other than the great […]