Eitan Bar · Biblical and historical polemic · 2019
…ople 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 really accounts for the text in its own conte…
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How Supersessionism Took Root in the Early Church A history of interpretation, polemic, and forgotten tension Supersessionism did not appear in one moment through one theologian. It developed as the Church became increasingly Gentile, separated socially…
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…unsuspecting Jewish Bible. The prophecy was already there. The disagreement concerns its interpretation, not a Christian invention of the passage. How did Jews read it before Christianity? No surviving pre-Christian rabbinic commentary gives us a line-by-line exposition of Danie…
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…ry Jewish teacher is therefore necessary—but not sufficient. He did not merely repeat the interpretations around Him. He claimed authority over the sabbath, forgave sins, identified Himself with Daniel's Son of man, accepted messianic titles, and placed allegiance to Himself at t…
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