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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…ife of the Church. Torah Jesus in the Old Testament Messiah Law and grace Mosaic covenant Rabbinic tradition Christian obedience
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…ere multiplying among the nations. Jewish communities had not vanished from the land, and rabbinic leadership continued to rebuild Jewish communal life. Even so, the national institutions which made a straightforward restoration seem imaginable were gone. For all practical purpos…
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…tion of the passage. How did Jews read it before Christianity? No surviving pre-Christian rabbinic commentary gives us a line-by-line exposition of Daniel 9:24–27. Formal rabbinic literature was compiled later, and claims that “the ancient rabbis all admitted this was Jesus” shou…
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…estament writer cannot be proved with equal certainty. Hebrews is anonymous, and Luke has traditionally been regarded as Gentile although the text never directly states his ethnicity. The argument does not depend upon claiming that every author was Jewish. The central figures, fi…
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