Many older Bible commentaries discuss the type of messiah that the Jews at the time of Jesus were looking for. These older commentaries often state that a King David-type king that would free the Jews from the Romans was the archetypical messianic figure. However, the "Dead Sea Scrolls" shed a different light on Second Temple Jewish messianic expectations. There is, for example, some evidence in the scrolls that the messiah would be divine and that …showed first 75 words of 1179 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1179 total…Israel Knohl about the messiah before the Jesus, I think that some of the "Dead Sea scrolls" refer to the suffering messiah, also other kinds of messiah. Although these two persons have some arguments on some points of views, they raise a new and surprising topic about the history and the Bible. This topic must be further researched and discussed by people and scholars. Maybe further discoveries will let humans know a new biblical history.