I'm sure that everyone on this list knows that the literal meaning of Ma$iax
in the Tanakh is "anointed" - someone who has had oil poured on his head.
This can be either a king or a priest, and even a foreign king (such as
Cyrus in Isaiah 44-45). "Christos" is simply the Greek translation of the
same. "The Mashiah" in the sense that the word is used in Judaism (or in
Christianity, for that matter) is a late Second Temple and later
development, both linguistically and conceptually. I don't know of a single
place in the Tanakh where I would read the word Ma$iax to LITERALLY mean
"Messiah" in the later sense.
Does anyone have any examples to the contrary?
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