IROSF

brunians at brunians.org · 03 Apr 2009, 21:40 · from 2009-April.txt.gz

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From: brunians at brunians.org (brunians at brunians.org)
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 17:40:25 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: (urth) IROSF
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> At 20:17 03/04/2009, you wrote:
>> It's an interesting period in Jewish history: when people talked
>> about the Messiah, at that time, they usually meant Cyrus the Great.

> I think that had to some extent worn off by the time of the setting
> of the Soldier books, upwards of 50 years after Cyrus's death.

Why do you say that? The books of Ezra and Nehemiah were recently
published and widely read.

What did people mean, then, when they said 'moshiach', anyway?







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