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Few biblical prophecies have generated as much heat as this week\u2019s blessing of Judah: \u201cThe scepter shall not depart from Judah nor the ruler\u2019s staff from between his feet.\u201d The verse following, however, adds the caveat, ad sheyavo shiloh, and therein lies the problem.
The JPS Bible translates the phrase, \u201cso that tribute shall come to him,\u201d but admits that its meaning is actually \u201cwholly obscure.\u201d The first two words, ad sheyavo could also mean \u201cuntil there arises\u2026\u201d as if to say that sovereignty will last only until someone or something named Shiloh appears. So the Gemara [San. 98b] identifies Shiloh as \u201cthe name of the messiah\u201d \u2014 a tradition that continues into the Middles Ages in such commentators as Ramban and Baal Haturim.
But Christians, too. knew this tradition and argued that Shiloh was Jesus who had already arrived. They pointed to the absence of independent Jewish rule in Jerusalem as evidence that the scepter of authority had passed firmly to them.
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