Eitan Bar · Biblical and historical polemic · 2019
…experience discussing Yeshua with Jewish people bring valuable context to questions about messianic prophecy, the New Testament, and rabbinic interpretation. The book is most useful when it sends the reader back to the Hebrew Scriptures to ask whether the traditional objection re…
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…emoved from the narrative which gives those titles meaning. He is called Messiah, but His messianic mission is not explained. He is called a word from God, but not the Word who was with God and was God. He is associated with the Spirit, but is made to deny the divine identity pro…
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