Christianity and Islam are described as paths by which many Jews remained connected to Jewish messianic hopes while adapting to Roman or Arabian worlds.
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Messianism
Christianity and Islam are described as paths by which many Jews remained connected to Jewish messianic hopes while adapting to Roman or Arabian worlds.
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Jiang claims the current Middle East pattern has happened before and will happen again, introducing a 1,500-year-old messianic crisis around Jerusalem as the next comparison.
He says the next video will explain how Mohammed came to occupy that messianic role in his account.
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"So when the Second Temple is destroyed, what happened is that the Jews, or many Jews will choose to convert to Christianity. Okay. Because..."
"And their religion was splintered into many different factions. But the major characteristic is that they've gone from temple worship to worship of their..."
"believe that in the Messianic Age, the Messiah will come, lead them to victory, bring all the Jews back to Jerusalem, and build the..."
"What's happening in the Middle East? It's happened before and it will happen again. So 1,500 years ago in the Middle East, it seemed..."
"Well, actually we don't know this man's name. But today we refer to this man as Mohammed. Mohammed was the Messiah of the Jews...."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Jewish history, Sabbatai Zevi, and Jacob Frank: Jerusalem begins as an imperial hinge, exile becomes a crisis of faith, and Frankism turns sin, story, money, secrecy, and...
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