TY  - BOOK
AU  - Knohl, Israel
TI  - The Messiah Before Jesus: The Suffering Servant of the Dead Sea Scroll
SN  - 0-520-21592-3
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Berkeley 
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Dead Sea scrolls -- Relation to the New Testament. Thanksgiving Psalms. Jesus Christ -- Messiahship
N2  - Publisher Fact Sheet Argues that there was a "messianic forerunner" to Jesus named Menachem who lived a generation earlier & served as a sort of role model for Jesus & his messianic movement
ER  -