from popularly current Jewish views. And, indeed - could there be a greater contrast than

between the Jewish forerunner of the Messiah and him of the New Testament?

THE following list contains the passages in the Old Testament applied to the Messiah or

to Messianic times in the most ancient Jewish writings. They amount in all to 456, thus

distributed: 75 from the Pentateuch, 243 from the Prophets, and 138 from the

Hagiographa, and supported by more than 558 separate quotations from Rabbinic

writings. Despite all labour care, it can scarcely be hoped that the list is quite complete,

although, it is hoped, no important passage has been omitted. The Rabbinic references

might have been considerably increased, but it seemed useless to quote the same

application of a passage in many different books. Similarly, for the sake of space, only

the most important Rabbinic quotations have been translated in extenso. The Rabbinic

works from which quotations have been made are: the Targumim , the two Talmuds, and

the most ancient Midrashim , but neither the Zohar (as the date of its composition is in

dispute), nor any other Kabbalistic work, nor yet the younger Midrashim, no r, of course,

the writings of later Rabbis. I have, however, frequently quoted from the well-known

work Yalkut , because, although of comparatively late date, it is really, as its name

implies, a collection and selection from more than fifty older and accredited writings, and

adduces passages now not otherwise accessible to us. And I have the more readily availed

myself of it, as I have been reluctantly forced to the conclusion that even the Midrashim

preserved to us have occasionally been tampered with for controversial purposes. I have

quoted from the best edition of Yalkut (Frankfort a. M., 1687), but in the case of the other

Midrashim I have been obliged to content myself with such more recent reprints as I

possessed, instead of the older and more expensive editions. In quoting from the

Midrashim, not only the Parashah, but mostly also the folio, the page, and frequently

even the lines are referred to. Lastly, it only remains to acknowledge in general that, so

far as possible, I have availed myself of the labours of my predecessors - specially of

those of Schöttgen. Yet, even so, I may, in a sense, claim these references also as the

result of my own labours, since I have not availed myself of quotations without

comparing them with the works from which they were adduced - a process in which not a