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

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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!

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.

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)

Great book. Best I've read on the subject yet. You debunked a bunch of misinformation and enlightened me in other areas!

This book is a wonderful insight to Jewish culture, religion and life in general. Dr. Brown talks about a wide ranges of questions non-Jewish believers have. If your curious and want to know more about the people who our Messiah was birthed from, then get this book!

I have looked for a book like this for some time. I couldn't put it down once I started it. It is so interesting and seems to have been written for me! As a keen amateur theology student this was perfect. This book answered many of my questions and included subjects that I never thought I'd get information on without asking a Jewish person directly.I would recommend this book to anyone interested in the Jewish culture.

If you want to learn about Jews why not get a book written by a Jew.

Mr. Brown is not a Jew. Jews do not accept Jesus as messiah. Period. Therefore the name by which he defines his religion, Messianic Jew, is an oxymoron.

He writes from a Messianic Jewish aka Hebrew Christian viewpoint. This in no way reflects a classical Jewish perspective. This book is misadvertised and does not do what it claims. It does not at all describe what REAL Jews think about Jesus.

Proof of this is that no Jewish bookstore will sell this book. However you will find several books by Jewish authors such as David Klinghoffer that address the subject clearly and without the Messianic (Christian) bias.