The very late rabbinic midrash on Lamentations in fact takes this text explicitly as a messianic prophecy. |
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However, beginning in 1993 there was intense messianic fervour in the community. |
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He pointed to his wonderful deeds, which fulfilled the messianic prophecies of the Old Testament and were wrought by the power of God. |
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In February 1992, Rabbi Shach, himself an eminent Rabbi, branded the Lubavitcher Rebbe as a heretic, who harboured messianic pretensions. |
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Chanukah, in a very subtle manner, hints to the messianic era, when the light of Torah from Jerusalem will illuminate the world. |
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The establishment of a nation state fueled messianic visions, and may have concretized some ideas that should have been kept more fluid. |
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The difference between these two novellas is the difference between aestheticist despair and messianic hope. |
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In accordance with Melton's theory, the messianic belief underwent a process of spiritualization. |
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All is well, for despite being on the wrong animal, he is surrounded by followers full of messianic hopes. |
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Talk of the moshiach increased and the fact that the Rebbe cold not talk did nothing to detract Lubavitchers from the messianic belief. |
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Everyone expressed a feeling that they must continue, and hope and pray for the messianic arrival and redemption. |
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These messianic beliefs in turn led them to start a religion-driven settlement of the whole Promised Land in the Occupied Territories. |
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The belief in the coming of the messianic era belongs to that latter kind of hope. |
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I have to be careful I don't preach to my sybaritic, porky friends with messianic fervour about the joys of healthy eating. |
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Lefties perfected long ago the enlistment of Jesus in their secular messianic causes. |
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Although monasticism is not part of mainstream Judaism, the Essenes, a messianic sect, founded a remote community by the Dead Sea. |
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The electronic keyboards have almost wiped it out of existence, but a Bangalore trio has been propagating it with messianic zeal. |
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Portugal's sixteenth-century king Sebastian, ascribed messianic splendours after his death, was a total disaster in life. |
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Jesus did not offer new or unique teachings, urge his followers to prepare for eternal life with God, or fulfill a messianic mission. |
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I still think that mischievous, but not nearly as vile as ascribing messianic qualities to a single man. |
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At each stage of this third period, the collision between Hagiocracy and these messianic forces becomes more formidable. |
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Yet I feel pretty sure that recreating the messianic zeal about Early Intervention that I felt that day in Granton would do nothing but good. |
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This messianic zeal on the part of Gibreel comes to a sad and realistic end when he finds himself back at Alleluia Cone's door. |
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Like most of her online posse, Shera speaks of the group with messianic zeal, refusing to pose for any of their many imitators. |
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He is the supposed messianic figure of the cargo cult, a white man in disguise, a trader whose blank expression calmly signifies the done deal. |
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Only the experiences which are described as Easter and Pentecost created their faith in the paradoxical character of the messianic claim. |
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It's a new, determined, almost messianic belief that the technology that caused all this trouble is what's going to save them now. |
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But the memories of kingship could not die, and so gave birth to messianic hope. |
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I don't have any messianic beliefs that I could have stopped it or other people could have stopped it, but I sure would have like to have tried. |
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While Wilson rightly championed liberty, he refused to ground his messianic zeal in American self-interest. |
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Fackenheim sees the working-out of this commitment as a this-worldly messianic goal. |
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At a time when the continent is still considered a lost cause, they had every reason to welcome the president's messianic message of hope. |
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The belief in a mythical messianic figure named John Frum was the basis for an indigenous cargo cult promising Melanesian deliverance. |
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An eschatological messianic banquet is foretold there in which Jesus will sit once again with his disciples. |
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And for all the likely travails that the next month will bring, Brown talks with the messianic zeal of a man on a mission. |
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There were many messianic texts in the Old Testament vvhich foreshadowed the sufferings of the future Anointed One of God. |
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There was also a disconcertingly messianic intensity to his eyes. |
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In his early years as political agitator in Bavaria he frequently played on the deicidal myth and on his own messianic role as a militant Germanic saviour. |
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The picture has been built up of stern, messianic Afrikaners indifferent to the strictures of a liberalistic and communist world. |
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His inevitable destruction symbolizes the ultimate victory of good over evil in the messianic era. |
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And the messianic turn Bartlett's storyline takes – accompanied by an animated cartoon – disappoints. |
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For a while, however, most Americans seemed repulsed by what their country had become during the war, and refused to have anything to do with Wilson's messianic world agenda. |
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But Mr Uribe, a somewhat messianic leader, has overseen Colombia's gradual pacification. |
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Instead, they have allowed messianic extremists to hijack the political agenda and drag both societies into war. |
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For one thing, there are prophecies about the messianic era in the Torah. |
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After a visit to an isolated community of desert mystics, Jesus takes on a messianic role, which deepens after a transforming experience of temptation in the wilderness. |
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This claim is made not on an historical basis but on a theological one with the assertion of God's fatherhood and anointing for the messianic ruler of God's people. |
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The followers of Jesus also experience being called as participants into God's messianic mission to bring forth a new creation through a vulnerable mission of love. |
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Or perhaps some of the actions and teachings of Jesus aroused strong messianic hopes, but Jesus himself deliberately avoided making an overt claim to be the Messiah. |
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She was a Brownie Scout troop leader of almost messianic zeal. |
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He was said to have been messianic in his zeal to make vaccinations mandatory because of his alleged stockpile of smallpox that, needless to say, never turned up. |
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He, however, is determined to go forward, blinded by his messianic militarism and his passion to feed and grow the military-industrial complex while in office. |
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A blond-haired Adonis with piercing blue eyes, his intense, neurotic messianic Lawrence is always the performance by which he will be most readily remembered. |
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The defence secretary, whose department was, for reasons which still seem unfathomable, allowed to run what counted for peace as well as the war, lacked this messianic zeal. |
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This might be true, but not in countries led by terrorists or fanatics possessed by messianic visions or that have no political or strategic discipline. |
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Boyle's comments place him in the opposite corner from film-makers such as Avatar's James Cameron, who has embraced 3D with messianic zeal. |
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But for all that, from the beginning, Mr Gilder's messianic intensity and relentless optimism exert a grip on the reader that never lets go. |
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The messianic kingdom long promised by the prophets is now breaking into history. |
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The first type is rather messianic, involving the export and globalisation of law and order and the constitutional state as we understand it. |
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From this sort of myth, mainly shared by Muslims, the Islamists built up their messianic ideology. |
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A new strain of religious or messianic extremism is a particularly disturbing trend in the contemporary terrorist threat environment. |
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That is why they prefer caudillos to political parties, messianic leaders to democratic institutions. |
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The charisma of messianic preachers has historically found an audience. |
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She's arguably Japan's biggest and most beloved pop star of this millennium, an industry standard that inspires messianic devotion from schoolgirls and salarymen alike. |
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I remember in the bad old days when Rock Operas were about the War Of The Worlds, or a messianic cult based on a sensorily deprived pinball player. |
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In his proclamation of the birth of the messianic child and its reign of peace without end, the prophet gave new hope to a deeply oppressed and depressed people. |
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There can be no doubt from the tone set by Brian on Thursday at the bank's O'Connell Street branch that the group has gone for wooing customers with messianic zeal. |
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What is not so well known, perhaps, is his almost messianic desire to propagate a love of fine wine and viniculture to as large an audience as possible. |
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Superman Returns'' is a comic book movie for people who like virtuous superheroes, soap-opera story lines and blatant messianic allegories. |
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Radical theologians and messianic dictators take advantage of this ignorance to invoke nationalistic or religious sentiments in support of their own views and consolidate their power base. |
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Attempts at new international balances such as the enlarged G8 or the messianic crusading perception of the various superpowers of their role lead nowhere. |
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Already dubbed the future of American football and yoked with the weight of almost messianic expectations, the 13-year-old wonder kid lived up to the hype with an outstanding performance down south in Guatemala City. |
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After the messianic era has ended, there will be a general resurrection of the dead, followed by the great judgement of all men and the establishment of a new creation cleansed of all unrighteousness. |
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They had the consciousness that a new age had broken in, that in some hidden way the messianic days had begun with them, and they eagerly expected the return of Jesus to make an end of history altogether. |
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The reign of the Messiah, preceded by messianic birth pangs, eschatological war, still belongs to Olam ha-Zeh, and the kingdom of heaven will succeed it. |
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Simply put, people who call for their opponents to be arrested or killed, while imbuing their own candidate with messianic powers, do not accept political defeat easily. |
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Many separate but related religious groups of that era shared similar mystic, eschatological, messianic, and ascetic beliefs. |
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However, Collins considers him an example of the messianic leaders that were not uncommon among Berbers at that time and earlier. |
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And that leaves Lopez as the slightly messianic Cowell figure. |
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The city has unleashed messianic passions since Biblical times. |
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Heroic though he was, he did not have the messianic powers some attributed to him, nor could others be expected to match his capacity to hold high principles, to live by them and to use his moral stature to such effect. |
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In perceptions of Redemption, Exile, and the Land, messianic nationalism and anti-Zionist Orthodox or haredi Judaism differ fundamentally. |
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Christ is truly alive and hidden, in his whole messianic mission of way, truth and life in whoever among men in this world is hungry and in need». |
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I kept waiting with messianic fervor for the publication of an anthology somewhat more heimish. |
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We cannot improve on this messianic strategy today. |
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It is said that they rejected the ideas of a coming messianic figure, a future resurrection, the Pharisaic idea of the immortality of the soul, and the existence of angels or demons. |
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The former professor's advocacy for self-determination profoundly resonated with nationalists around the globe, and Wilson himself was regarded as an almost messianic figure. |
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The messianic order revolutionises not as a passive expectation of something big which will happen but as a present demand of something which will be given us. |
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The vision of a brave new world remains somewhat cloudy and its ultimate goals have not been spelled out in detail, but the basic ideas that revolved around the messianic and apocalyptic phrase were widely shared. |
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Or is it to be the hidden pathway of humility? We are all prepared to follow Jesus, the glorious and victorious Messiah, but we find it difficult to embrace the messianic path of kenosis. |
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The municipal councillors beg to differ and undertake to thwart this stubborn visionary who has put aside everything else in order to fulfill his messianic dream. |
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She considers the Jewish-Christian dialogue, exploring some christological paths, examining the radical empirical methods, and mapping some variations on the messianic theme. |
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The imperfections of human community that the messianic seeks to exuviate turns on itself at the very moment when it comes into contact with an outside. |
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He did not mention that a series of scholars, notably Isaiah Tishby and Moshe Idel, differed from Scholem and spoke of externalistic messianic dimensions within Hasidism. |
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The Chririguanos were not finally pacified until the defeat in 1892 of forces led by their messianic leader Apiaguaiki Tumpa in the Battle of Kuruyuki. |
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No observant Jew will question the coming of the Messianic era as a tenet of Judaism. |
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Throughout the world, Messianic congregations hold elaborate and well-publicized Passover Seders. |
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Thus, the restoration of prophecy is very important in the unfolding of the Messianic drama. |
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They serve as the prototypes for the Messiah from Joseph, and the Messiah from David, who usher in the Messianic Era. |
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It is little coincidence that there are more Messianic congregations tightly packed into the peninsula of South Florida than any other similarly sized region in North America. |
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Some members of the movement argue that Messianic Judaism is a sect of Judaism. |
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In Asia, there was no Messianic prophecy to give plan and meaning to the everyday life of educated and uneducated alike. |
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Messianic Judaism generally holds the same view of New Testament authority as evangelical Protestants. |
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Standing on top of Trash Mountain and affirming the Messianic promise of the kingdom of heaven, we cannot help but take responsibility for recycling and reducing consumption. |
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