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Recommended book · Jewish-Christian apologeticsBook review

Refuting Rabbinic Objections to Christianity & Messianic Prophecies

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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Recommended book · Torah, Messiah & biblical theologyBook review

Reading Moses, Seeing Jesus

Seth D. Postell, Eitan Bar & Erez Soref · Messianic biblical theology · 2017

…ip between the Mosaic Law and believers in Christ is deeply disputed among Christians and Messianic Jews. The authors argue a definite position and do not represent every Messianic approach to Torah observance. Test their larger framework from both Testaments, distinguish endurin…

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Article · Israel and the ChurchBiblical exposition · Historical study · Apologetics

The Restoration of the Nation of Israel

Regathering, national rebirth, and the spiritual renewal still to come

…it the combined historical and genetic evidence. Jewish identity is not reducible to DNA. Judaism has always included conversion, diaspora communities experienced intermarriage and admixture, and no genetic test can identify covenant standing or personal faith. Different Jewish p…

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Article · Israel and the ChurchBiblical exposition · Apologetics

The New Testament Is a Very Jewish Story

Israel's Messiah, Israel's Scriptures, and a gospel for the world

…ity over the sabbath, forgave sins, identified Himself with Daniel's Son of man, accepted messianic titles, and placed allegiance to Himself at the centre of faithfulness to Israel's God. His Jewish setting makes those claims sharper, not smaller. His mission began with Israel Je…

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Article · Israel and the ChurchBiblical exposition · Theological response · Textual study

No Holy Land? Covenant Discipline, Gentile Blessing, and Israel's Future

A response to Michael Horton on the land promise, Amos 9, and the people of God

…s? Acts 15 decisively establishes that Gentiles do not need circumcision or conversion to Judaism in order to be saved. God is taking from among the nations “a people for his name,” and believing Gentiles are received on the basis of grace through faith. That does not mean Gentil…

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Article · Biblical ProphecyBiblical exposition · Historical study · Apologetics · Comparative theology

The Daniel Dilemma

The Messiah cut off before the Temple fell

…evidence it does not possess. But they do not remove the problem. Daniel 9 existed within Judaism before Christianity. Its prophecy places the cutting off of an anointed figure before the destruction of the city and sanctuary. Jesus appeared during the Second Temple period, was r…

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Article · Comparative ReligionApologetics · Comparative theology · Biblical exposition · Theological reflection

The Sum of These Things

Christianity, Islam and the verdict of the evidence

…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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