What Do Jewish People Think about Jesus?: And Other Questions Christians Ask about Jewish Beliefs, Practices, and History [Paperback]

Dr. Michael L Brown (Author)

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Publication Date: October 1, 2007

Written in an accessible style, What Do Jewish People Think about Jesus? answers sixty common questions about Jewish people and Jewish culture. Drawn from the steady stream of questions Michael L. Brown's ministry receives every month, the book's questions reflect the perennial Christian fascination with Jewish customs and beliefs. A Jewish believer himself, Brown provides clear answers to questions like "Are there Jewish denominations?" "What are the ten lost tribes of Israel?" "Do the Jewish people expect a literal Messiah?" and many more. The book also addresses questions Christians have about their own relationship to the Old Testament Law, such as "Should Christians observe the Sabbath on Saturday?" and "Are Gentile Christians spiritual Jews?"

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Are there Jewish denominations?
What are the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel?
Do the Jewish people expect a literal Messiah?
Was the New Testament originally written in Hebrew?

Written in an accessible style, What Do Jewish People Think about Jesus? answers these and more than fifty other common questions Christians have about Jewish people, Jewish culture and the Jewish background to the New Testament. A Jewish believer himself, Dr. Michael L. Brown provides clear answers to questions about modern and historical Jewish practices. He also addresses questions Christians have about their own relationship to the Old Testament Law, such as "Should Christians observe the Sabbath on Saturday?" and "Are Gentile Christians spiritual Jews?"


"Michael Brown is the best scholar among Messianic Jews today. He has written a much-needed book to help his fellow Christians understand the Jews. He has a balanced view as to what Jews, Jewishness and Jewish customs mean that will help Christians appreciate the earthly family of Jesus."--Moishe Rosen, founder, Jews for Jesus

"Here's an invaluable guide from a trusted expert who loves Jesus and the Jewish people. Michael Brown provides authoritative answers--in an accessible form--about the questions you've probably had for years but didn't know who to ask."--Lee Strobel, author, The Case for Christ and The Case for the Real Jesus

"This is an amazing book, even for people like me who have walked with our Jewish brothers of faith for many years. Michael Brown's own Jewish background, coupled with his years of fruitful ministry in the Church, make him singularly capable for the task."--Don Finto, director, the Caleb Company; pastor emeritus, Belmont Church, Nashville; author, Your People Shall Be My People


Michael L. Brown, Ph.D., is the founder and president of ICN Ministries and president and full-time faculty member of FIRE School of Ministry. He has preached around the world and authored more than eighteen books on revival, holiness, radical discipleship and Jewish apologetics, along with scholarly works in Old Testament and Hebrew studies.

About the Author

Michael L. Brown is the founder and president of ICN Ministries and president and full-time faculty member of FIRE School of Ministry. He has preached around the world and authored more than fifteen books on revival, holiness, radical discipleship, and Jewish apologetics along with scholarly works in Old Testament and Hebrew studies. He lives in Huntersville, North Carolina.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Chosen; Reprinted edition (October 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0800794265
• ISBN-13: 978-0800794262
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #295,837 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book about the Jewish people, Jewish customs, and it applications to the Body of Christ..., May 18, 2008

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Greetings to all,
Michael Brown"s new book is excellent resource for those wanting to know more about the earthly family of Jesus. He address issues like what are the Noahide Laws, history of rabbinic judaism, jewish customs, Israel, are there twelve tribes, the name of "Jesus" vs "YAHshua/Yeshua", under Christians under the Law, ete,ete. You will not be dissapointed at all. He answers all the questions your were too afraid to ask. Plus, Michael Brown is Messianic Jew, a Jewish Believer in Jesus. I recommed this book to all who the Jewish people and her Messiah, Jesus!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Profoundly roots the Christian faith in its Jewish ancestry, February 6, 2010

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This review is from: What Do Jewish People Think about Jesus?: And Other Questions Christians Ask about Jewish Beliefs, Practices, and History (Paperback)

This book firmly and concisely roots Christianity in its Jewish ancestry. It answers important Christian questions ranging over calendar-differences and differences in belief. But most importantly it sepearates tradition from scripture to show how the Gentile Christians and Jews (orthodox in particular) have both gone astray through traditions that are in no way rooted in scripture. He goes on to show how the two have the exact same background, how Jesus himself was a Jew and how the very first followers of Jesus were Jews. In fact there is not two but one religion - first to the Jews then to the gentiles, but the same religion never the less.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A FAMOUS SCHOLAR ANSWERS CHRISTIAN QUESTIONS ABOUT JEWISH PEOPLE/RELIGION, April 21, 2011

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This review is from: What Do Jewish People Think about Jesus?: And Other Questions Christians Ask about Jewish Beliefs, Practices, and History (Paperback)

Dr. Michael L. Brown is founder and president of ICN Ministries and of FIRE School of Ministry; he was also a key figure in the (now defunct) Brownsville Revival. He is also of Jewish background, and is certainly the most "scholarly" (see the four volumes of his Answering Jewish Objections to Jesus: General and Historical Objections) of converted Jews who are seeking to convert other Jews to evangelical Christianity.

He writes in the Preface to this 2007 book, "I have often been approached by Christians with all kinds of 'Jewish' questions... and so the idea was birthed of answering them all in a book... The questions I address here are primarily CHRISTIAN questions about Jewish-related issues... and the vast majority of the questions treated here are not treated in my apologetics series at all."

Here are some quotations from the book:

"What are the origins of the prohibition (against mixing milk and meat)? Jewish biblical scholar Nahum Sarna outlines the history of Jewish interpretation of this prohibition, the explanation of which 'largely remains an enigma.'" (Pg. 67)
"Did Jesus himself wear these fringes, which, in the first century, would have been blue? Since he was a Torah-observant Jew, we have every reason to believe that he did, although he denounced the ostentatious wearing of the fringes so as to be seen by man (see Matthew 23:5)." (Pg. 91)
"(H)istorically speaking, there is no such thing as a Palestinian people. It is true that there have been Arabs living in the land of Palestine for centuries... And it is true that some of these families have lived in Palestine without interruption for many generations. But at no time before 1967 did these Arabs ever identify themselves as 'Palestinians.'" (Pg. 144)
"As we get closer to the end of the age, we must keep our attention focused on Israel and the Jewish people. But it is high time to abandon the dogmatic, unquestioning interpretation that the fig tree is Israel, lest we continue to get our times and seasons wrong." (Pg. 152)
"In an ironic, final twist, the great majority of those attending Messianic Jewish congregations (specifically in America) are Gentiles, not Jews, and some of them designate themselves as Messianic Gentiles. I expect that we will see more creative terminology in the days to come." (Pg. 248)