Menahem ben Ammiel

Menahem ben Ammiel

Menahem ben Ammiel, or ben Amiel, is a character in apocalyptic Jewish texts, the future Messiah of the Sefer Zerubbabel. He fights with Armilus, the Jewish apocalyptic counterpart of the Christian Book of Revelation's Antichrist.[1]

References

  1. ^ Joseph Dan, chapter in Toward the millennium: messianic expectations from the Bible to Waco ed. Peter Schäfer, Mark R. Cohen p84

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