Accusations that the New Testament “forces” Israel’s Scriptures to say what they do not say are not new. What’s often missed is that the New Testament’s way of reading the Tanakh is thoroughly Jewish — riffing on motifs, echoing earlier texts, and weaving together promise and fulfillment the way Israel’s …

The charge is common: “The New Testament tosses Israel aside and replaces her with the Church.” Many repeat it without opening the book they critique. But when you actually read the relevant passages, the story sounds very different — deeply Jewish, fiercely opposed to boasting, and saturated with covenant hope. …

Every serious conversation must begin here: “Hear, O Israel: the Lord is our God, the Lord alone” (Deuteronomy 6:4). Whatever Christians mean by Father, Son, and Spirit, if it does not safeguard the Shema, it is not the faith of Yeshua or his apostles. The New Testament does not replace …

A common Rabbinic objection to Jesus is that he is considered a false prophet, accused of leading the people of Israel away from the God of Israel. Deuteronomy gives Israel a fierce clarity: if a prophet speaks in the name of other gods or presumes to speak what the Lord …

“If Jesus were the Messiah,” the argument goes, “the front page would announce world peace. Isaiah says wolves and lambs will live together — yet history after Jesus looks bloody, not blissful.” That objection deserves a careful, Jewishly literate reply. Scripture does bind the Messiah and shalom (Hebrew for peace) …

Jewish critics often charge that the New Testament “turns a man into God,” smuggling pagan ideas into Israel’s faith. Scripture tells a different story. The Bible rejects the idea of human beings climbing up to become gods. It also witnesses — again and again — to the Holy One freely …

Daniel 9 is one of Scripture’s most daring claims: it binds the hope of Israel to a clock. Not a vague “someday,” but a countdown tied to a royal decree, a rebuilt Jerusalem, the public arrival of “Messiah the Prince,” his being “cut off,” and — after that — the …

From the perspective of Rabbinic halakhah (religious tradition; also known as Oral Torah), Jesus of Nazareth is not only disqualified as the Messiah but branded a false prophet, one who sought to lead Israel astray. Stories and fables about Him — some grotesque, others satirical — were told in rabbinic …

It is tempting to solve Yeshua by analogy. Put him beside Krishna, Horus, Attis, Dionysus, or Mithras, list a handful of alleged similarities, and conclude that his story is a late remix of older myths. The move feels tidy—and it spares us the scandal of Israel’s Messiah entering history. But …

Jesus was a Jew from the tribe of Judah who lived, worshiped, taught, and died in the heart of Israel. Calling Him “anti-Semitic” only works if “anti-Semitic” now means “a Jewish prophet who confronted corrupt leaders the way Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Elijah did.” That’s the whole point: His sharpest words …