This book is a Jews for Judaism guide, written primarily to counteract the missionary's thrust directed at the Jew. It is aimed at the mind and heart of Jews who have an interest in or an attraction to Christianity. Jews needing help when sadly confronted with a loved one who would desert his or her heritage will find this work filled with treasure. In addition, devoted Jews and, indeed, non-Jews who are curious about Judaism's answers will fiind these pages fascinating. EXPOSED ARE THE ERRORS OF THE MISSIONARIES THATARE HEAPED UPON UNINFORMED JEWS, AND STRENGTHENED ARE THE FOUNDATIONS BLOCKS OF JUDAISM GIVEN US BY GOD. Judaism's eternal sacredness is revealed using passages from both Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament. The holy quotations presented prove that a Jew's conversion to Christianity cannot be justified to himself or to God.
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Standard response, cogent and firm,
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This review is from: Judaism's Truth Answers the Missionaries (Paperback)
Moshe employs many old standby arguments and a puts a novel twist on several of them as well. She manages to recontextualize the Christian Scriptures, rightly or wrongly, into a Jewish frame of mind. Personally, I am not certain how much of the Christian scriptures were written in a Jewish setting or even how much of them were not created out of whole-cloth.
However, unlike certain other reviewers, I have never been terribly impressed by Michael L. Brown's book. The responses he has offered fall flat when examined for historical or even rational cogency. He offers nice apologetics to missionaries when their feelings have been hurt by a bad encounter with a well-read Jew, but they are not terribly useful beyond that. I am fortunate to have a decent library of my own and access to some great facilities with endless resources and I was really not impressed when I did fact checking on Michael L. Brown's responses. In any case, Beth Moshe, does a fine job of putting together rational arguments. They are not entirely new, but it is an interesting take and worth a read. Besides, Christian arguments have not changed much in the past 2000 years. Why should the refutations change?
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A BIBLICALLY-DETAILED CRITIQUE OF CHRISTIAN ARGUMENTS,
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The author writes in the Introduction to this 1987 book, "This book is a Jews for Judaism guide, written primarily to counter the thrust of the Christian missionary, directed to the Jew. It is aimed at the mind and heart of the Jew who has an interest in or an attraction to Christianity. Every person of Jewish heritage who is a convert to Christianity or is contemplating conversion should read this book---now. In addition, it is meant to be read by Jews steadfast and devoted to Judaism, who nevertheless have wondered about Jesus... Christians who would like to know Biblical Judaism as Jews understand it will also find this book of interest. They will see that Christianity's Messiah and Judaism's Messiah have nothing in common, nothing at all!"
Here are some quotations from the book: "The Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6(-8) is phrase by phrase a compilation of Hebrew thought in Bible, prayers, and Talmud." (Pg. 19) "While reading (the New Testament), ask this: Why would Jesus be immersed in the laws and customs of Judaism if his alleged mission was to extinguish them?" (Pg. 25) "Jesus, as well as his followers, considered that he was in the category of a prophet. Ask this: Can you envision the person who considers himself sent by God to be the Messiah calling himself merely a prophet? Although both are holy, they are worlds apart in function." (Pg. 117) "Again we see (Ex 7:1) the confirmation that the plural 'elohim' can refer to a single entity. And so it does in our subject verse in Genesis (1:1,26)." (Pg. 134) (About Daniel 9:24-26) "The dates authenticating Jesus as the Messiah are based on translation errors and Biblical misunderstanding... Christianity ignores punctuation separation between the seven 'weeks' and the sixty-two 'weeks.' They do this in order to make the time fit Jesus in their calculations. It is clear in the original Hebrew that the time periods are separate, and it would be meaningless to separate the time periods if they were together, and that is why they are not stated as a full sixty-nine 'weeks' by Daniel... 'One anointed' is to come in seven 'weeks,' as written, not in sixty-nine 'weeks,' as joined. Then, after sixty-two 'weeks' of the upbuilding of Jerusalem, another one anointed will die and Jerusalem's Temple will be destroyed... The second major error of Christianity is the fanciful use of Nehemiah 2:1, 7-8 as the counting base towards Jesus... Nehemiah's date was not a date of the 'going forth of the word' or 'commandment' for the rebuilding of Jerusalem... Nehemiah is only getting letters of communication for safe passage and wants timber to be used for the gate and walls and other general house building. The purpose was to make Jerusalem safer and less in disrepair.... What happened to the last of the supposed sixty-nine 'weeks' plus one, totaling seventy?... This extra 'week' cannot be advanced to a second coming, for it deals with the supposed first coming's 'cut off.' Recall that Daniel says that after sixty-two 'weeks' an anointed one will die and the city and sanctuary will be destroyed. Certainly Jesus' death in 33 C.E. and the Second Temple's destruction in 70 C.E. did not occur at the same time." (Pg. 199-201) "Now look at this Biblical match---Cyrus is our anointed one. He issued a proclamation in 537 B.C.E., the first year of his reign. This proclamation, from the anointed one, did come seven 'weeks,' forty-nine years, after the commandment to build Jerusalem... The forty-nine years added to 586 B.C.E. is exactly 537 B.C.E.... It's a perfect fit, of course, because it is just Biblical word fulfilled." (Pg. 202) "Isaiah's prophesy (in 52:12-53;12) is not about Jesus Christ, but is actually about the nation of Israel. It is not about the Hebrew Messiah, but about the Chosen Hebrew People... The vagueness and literary style of Isaiah here make misinterpretation easy for Christianity... for the words presumably could be interpreted as the foreshadowing of Jesus' suffering and vicarious atonement... Israel is Biblically described as a personification in the form of a servant. We have presented verses to prove that Israel is described as suffering and afflicted. And we have shown that the Hebrew Scriptures depict the Messiah as successful and powerful, never afflicted...." (Pg. 213-217)
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Judaism's Truth Answers the Missionaries,
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Ah yes, the critics yowling and accusing Beth Moshe of using the "the old standby arguments." Wake up out there, the Torah is indeed very "old," and the Prophets have quite a few centuries themselves. Just exactly what arguments would you like Ms. Moshe to use....her own? If the Torah and the Prophets are not enough to convince the reader why Jesus is neither the Messiah nor G-d, well then all hope is lost. Her book is excellent. I read it when it first came out. At that time she was bombarded with criticism in every christian chatroom...(not a surprise). I was born and raised in a Roman Catholic family and one day I decided to find out why the Jewish people do not accept Jesus as the Messiah to come, or the false teaching that he is G-d. Her book is just one of many out there to help anyone who sincerely wants to know the truth, and yes, to reiterate, she used the TANAKH and her work is easy to understand.
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