Talk:List of messiah claimants
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I had an existential crisis, trying to decide—should I backlink this to list of people by belief or list of people by occupation
(the next time some officious technocrat asks me for my occupation, I might just fill in messiah. If nothing else, it'll be good for a discount on my car insurance) Martin
Would List of claimed messiahs be better than List of messiah claimants? The article says that it also includes people whose followers asserted that they were messiahs. -- Oliver P. 01:18 Mar 2, 2003 (UTC)
- Claimant also has a secondary meaning of one who has claim on something and would thus encompass those who followers assert has a claim to being a messiah. The primary meaning is true for most if not all on the list. SCCarlson 06:02 Mar 2, 2003 (UTC)
I think that asserting that "Jesus did not claim to be the Messiah" is unnecessarily tendentious. Some people claim he did; some people claim he didn't, and we don't have to decide the question in order to place him on this list. I also don't see much need for "His followers formed Christianity" which is true but seems tangential. YMMD. -- Someone else 06:50 22 May 2003 (UTC)
So did no one claim before Jesus? lysdexia 15:55, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Categories
I broke this list down into 3 manageable bites, Jewish, Christian, and Other messiahs. Ignus 03:56, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Merging
There is a lot of duplication between this article and Messiah. I propose to merge. ≈ jossi ≈ 04:17, May 20, 2005 (UTC)
- I would perfer not to merge... i've been working toward the goal of having "Messiah" be about the concept, and each of the claimaints listed on the messiah page being given their own page, which would be referenced from the list page. However, i'm pretty new at all of this.
Ignus 04:40, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
- The concept of Messiah is already discussed in that article. It makes no sense to have two lists that share 90% of their names in it. ≈ jossi ≈ 22:27, May 20, 2005 (UTC)