Naked Bible 386: Messiah Son of Joseph

The Naked Bible Podcast

Dr. Michael S. Heiser

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Messiah Son of Joseph with Dr. David Mitchell Christians know Jesus as the messianic son of David. The fact that the messiah is referred to by other titles and terms (e.g., Servant, Branch, Root) is also well known. But there is one title or trajectory about the Jewish messiah that is relatively unknown, save to a handful of rabbinic teachers who intentionally do not want attention paid to it. That trajectory is the Messiah son of Joseph. In this episode we discuss this topic with Dr. David Mitchell, perhaps the solitary scholar who has brought all the relevant ancient “Josephite Messiah” material together into one book. Dr. Mitchell writes extensively of how Jewish sources such as the Talmud speak of a figure called Messiah ben Joseph, who comes forth from Galilee to die, pierced by his enemies at the gate of Jerusalem, whose death confounds Satan, atones for sin, and abolishes death itself. Books David C. Mitchell, Messiah ben Joseph (Campbell Publications, 2016) David C. Mitchell, Jesus: The Incarnation of the Word (Campbell Publications, 2021) David Mitchell homepage

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0:26.3	Welcome to the Naked Bible Podcast, episode 386, Messiah, Son of Joseph with Dr. David Mitchell,
0:32.8	I'm the layman, Tray Strickland, and he's this color Dr. Michael Heiser.
0:36.2	Hey, Mike, what's going on?
0:38.8	Well, again, I don't have a whole lot of updates, although I will admit that this week I actually
0:44.6	spent some time thinking about fantasy football.
0:48.4	I know it's still a little early, but I'm actually thinking, okay, I need to start listening
0:54.7	to podcasts and get ready for the season because fall is coming up here, but I don't know
0:59.0	about you, but it popped into my head.
1:02.9	I had to renew my league and stuff starting to pop up.
1:06.4	Of course, you kidding me.
1:07.4	I mean, July is when I'm starting to get excited.
1:10.6	I mean, I know all of our listeners are excited about fantasy football coming up.
1:15.2	I mean, it is right around the corner.
1:18.8	Yeah, we're about to enter that zone again.
1:21.8	I'm excited now.
1:25.2	Yeah, they're hitting the button.
1:27.9	Okay, yeah, we got it.
1:30.6	But again, I confess, it popped into my head this week and I thought, yeah, it's getting
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