What Is the Idea of the Messiah?

There's this element that often gets wrapped into the messiahs. He's going to be a leader like david, he says. And so where does this imagery come from? Well, it's been building for a long time,. coming from following the destruction of the temple by the babylonians. The roman period is when herod the great models himself on a hellenistic model of kingship as well. A king is someone mighty. He builds things. He is all powerful. He campaigns, he conquers. Then ll of a sudden you have the of new testament version of of jesus, and the claims thereof of him being the messiah and stepping into this