as many Jews of this period imagined it, should have two ‘anointed ones’: a legitimate king descended from David and a legitimate high priest descended from Aaron and Zadok. The sectarian priests who wrote some of the Dead Sea Scrolls therefore expected two Messiahs, with the high priest in the dominant role. They also expected there to be a third figure, a prophet, with the function of communicating oracles from God, but this figure is never actually called an anointed one.
