The Sources of Messianic Thought in Judaism

Abstract

The doctrine of the Messiah the Savior is one of the most important beliefs in the Jewish religion, and it was not the result of a specific stage, but was formed through stages in the history of the Jewish community, especially in critical periods for this group. Our choice of this research was the result of certain goals we wanted to reach, including an attempt to clarify the doctrine of the Savior and Salvation in Judaism and rooting for it by searching for its sources. And in order to achieve this, we used the descriptive approach. And we have reached the following conclusion: The idea of ​​salvation for the Jews went through different stages, and that was according to the situation in which they were, and thus we can, through the salvation thought, know the most important historical stages that the Jewish community passed through. Therefore, researchers in the history of Judaism must refer to the salvific thought as a phenomenon that chronicles the Jewish groups.