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The concept of an antikhristos is not found in Jewish writings in the period 500 BC–50 AD.[15]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antichrist

It's a later addition, does not refer to one individual only and is said to

... may have been generated by the frustration of Jews subject to often-capricious Seleucid or Roman rule, who found the nebulous Jewish idea of a Satan who is more of an opposing angel of God in the heavenly court insufficiently humanised and personalised to be a satisfactory incarnation of evil and threat same source.



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