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The New Testament has not one, but two genealogies of Jesus—tracing his family tree back to David. Why are there two? And why are they so different?
Many see a historical error among the accounts of Jesus’ life in the New Testament. Was his famous last supper a Passover Seder or not?
If you’re Jewish, maybe you’ve heard that some Christians believe your covenant with God is no longer valid. Where did these claims come from?
Scripture tells us that we were chosen by God for a purpose. But what is that purpose? A closer look points to our loving God and our neighbors.
Unfortunately, one of the most common phrases a Jewish person can hear is this: “The Jews killed Jesus.” Such condemnations have plagued the Jewish pe...
Scholars and theologians debate the particular kind of Judaism Jesus represented, but it was Judaism nonetheless. There was, as yet, nothing called “C...
An accusation we sometimes hear is that we deceptively try to attract Jewish people and “white wash” them into losing their identity and faith. This c...
What does Judaism say about sin? Is sin relevant to Jewish life? Read here.
For a professing Christian to side with the antisemite is to side not only against the Jewish Apostles who penned the Christian New Testament, but aga...
People often describe the Holocaust as the climax of 2,000 years of Christian mistreatment of Jews. Some invoke the Shoah as the ultimate reason for J...
A look at the Jewishness of the authors, focus, language, and content of the New Testament.
It’s a very common misrepresentation that while Jews believe in one God, Christians believe in three. The fact is that Christianity is as firmly monot...
Is there room in Jewish thought for the idea that someone can die for the sins of another? The Bible and Jewish tradition both seem to think so.
For 2000 years, Jewish community leaders have continued this tradition of excluding Messianic Jews. Despite the celebrated pluralism of today’s Jewish...
Did Hitler and his followers carry out a theology that is Christian at its roots?
The Jewish understanding and expectation of the Messiah comes from hundreds of messianic prophesies found in the Tanach. These prophecies have been ge...
The (Jewish) writers of the New Testament asserted that the Old Testament spoke of a coming Messiah and quoted from it extensively to prove their poin...
Many scholars acknowledge that the teachings of Jesus are distinctly Jewish. But what about Paul? We believe that a comparison of Tanach, the sayings ...
BINST GEVOREN A GOY! “You’ve become a Gentile!” We Jewish believers in Yeshua often encounter this accusation after we’ve been baptized.
The identity of the mother of Immanuel in Isaiah 7:14 has been a subject of debate over the centuries: Was the prophet Isaiah speaking of a virgin or ...
Some claim that Jesus taught his followers to hate their mother and father. If true, that would obviously make Jesus an immoral and unethical teacher,...
A common argument raised against the New Testament’s connecting Isaiah 7:14 to the virgin birth is that the Hebrew word ‘almah does not mean virgin.
Whatever else may be in question, we all agree that in the Jewish religion there is only one God. Yet there is disagreement as to the origin of Jewish...
The young Jewish man asked, “Do you really have an Orthodox Jewish background?” When I replied in the affirmative, he looked at me incredulously and w...