“Are you he who is to come, or shall we look for another?” (Luke 7.20). Fictional treatments of Jesus commonly show faithful Jews wondering whether he is in fact the Messiah, the One who is to come. The problem, though, is that any conscientious messianic candidate would probably have had to ask for the question to be expanded. Which One? Which Messiah do you mean? I have written about the complex ideas about the Messiah as they developed rapidly during... Read more