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Some claim that Jesus taught his followers to hate their mother and father. If true, that would obviously make Jesus an immoral and unethical teacher,...
Whatever else may be in question, we all agree that in the Jewish religion there is only one God. Yet there is disagreement as to the origin of Jewish...
After the fall of the temple, sacrifices were no longer possible. So the Rabbis made a change to our practice. But can prayer replace sacrifice?
The Jewish followers of Jesus believed that he reconciled us to God. Was that an inherently non-Jewish idea? Or does it come from our Scriptures?
Hebrew Tenses Sometimes it is claimed that the messianic prophecies cited by Christians are in the past tense. Therefore, it is said, they cannot refe...
Psalm 22:16 is one verse where the standard Jewish translations differ from the translations most Christians use. Here’s why. In Hebrew, the phrase th...
Some claim that translating the word “bar” (in Psalm 2:12) as “son” rather than as “purity” is a distortion of the Hebrew text in order to make the ve...
Though some say that Psalm 2 is not considered messianic by the rabbis or Jewish sages, the Jewish messianic understanding of Psalm 2 has a long histo...
It’s commonly maintained that Isaiah 53 was never considered messianic by rabbis and Jewish sages. Sometimes the statement is phrased as, “Judaism tea...
Some say that Zechariah 12:10 refers to the Gentile nations who mourn because of the Jewish martyrs (or a particular unknown martyr) they have killed....
Jeremiah 22 says that none of king Jeconiah’s offspring will sit on the throne of David. If Jesus is his descendant, is he disqualified as Messiah?
A person is either Jewish or not Jewish, and few actually believe that Paul was not. Hyam Maccoby is virtually alone in his opinion that Paul was a ge...
My interest in JESUS — i.e. in the name of Jesus — dates back to 1976-78, when I lived in Jerusalem: While being a Danish pastor in Jerusalem in those...
It is a common misconception that every Jewish person of Jesus’ time rejected him—but this does not tell the full story. In fact, many were fascinated...
Were some modern Passover traditions invented by the early followers of Jesus, before they were separated from the greater Jewish community?
The writer of Proverbs paints a mysterious picture of a figure who bears the name of God’s son and asks the reader to identify him. But is the idea of...