The Use of the Word "Anointed" in the Time of Jesus

In a passage on the Jewish background of the New Testament use of the word XP?(JT6ç which is found in his De Christologie van het Nieuwe Testament 1), Professor G. SEVENSTER remarks that the word Messiah has no fixed content. Various concepts may be connected with it and its exact meaning needs to be established within each context in which it is used. He emphasizes that the Jewish expectation of the Messiah was not mainly, still less exclusively, a politico-national one and maintains that no rigid distinction can be sustained between a "national" conception and a "spiritual" one.