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’ ...

Jews believe that Jesus, a young rabbi/teacher, was falsely accused by the Roman rulers of the Land of Israel of claiming he was ‘The King of the Jews’ (Mark 15:2 & 18, Matthew 27:11, Luke 23: ...

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.

Amy-Jill Levine, who teaches New Testament and Jewish studies at Vanderbilt, is the author of The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus and coeditor of The Jewish Annotated ...

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 ...

Historically, the belief that the age of the Messiah had begun with Jesus was a new stream within Judaism. But those who did not and do not accept Jesus as Messiah are equally part of the stream of ...

Kosher Jesus By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach Gefen Publishing House, 263 pages, $26 Despite Rabbi Shmuley Boteach’s best efforts in “Kosher Jesus,” some Jewish teachers and their messages are not ...

Jewish Jesus Pencil Preaching for Friday, March 12, 2021. Spirituality. Pencil Preaching. by Pat Marrin. View Author Profile ... Matthew, the most Jewish of the four evangelists, ...