Jesus and the Torah: A Jewish Reformer. Jesus was born and raised a Jew. He was circumcised on the eighth day, attended synagogue regularly, celebrated the Jewish festivals like Passover, ...

Jesus, says New Testament scholar Amy-Jill Levine, “teaches like a Jew. He talks in parables…and Jesus is just a fabulous Jewish storyteller.” ...

As Bible scholars, we also know that Christmas sermons often bring out toxic errors concerning Jesus’ Judaism, making anti-Jewish misinterpretations of Scripture as common as Santa and his elves.

News Christians Are Studying Torah — In Israel And Online — To Get Closer To Jesus ‘As Christians, we believe in Jesus and that Jesus was a Jew’ ...

But the Judaism of Jesus’s day often differs from that of the Old Testament. “In the New Testament, Jesus goes to synagogue in Luke 4, ‘as was his custom,’ on the Sabbath day.

In Matthew, Jesus is a proponent of Torah piety, just like the Pharisees. So, on the one hand, they follow the law in a way that makes them very good Jews. On the other hand ...

Or put another way (again by Wright), “Jesus believed that it was his vocation to be the embodiment of that which was spoken of in the Jewish symbols of Temple, Torah, Word, Spirit and Wisdom ...

As a poor Jewish man, the real Jesus would have not had a fancypants title, but would’ve instead been referred to by his place of origin. 3.

He was born to Jewish parents in Judea, he lived as a Jew, and he died as a Jew. In the time of Jesus, Palestine didn’t exist—as a place, an entity, a word, or a concept.