New Testament & Judaism

“… a distinctive Jewish communal presence is important for the outworking of the divine purpose in the world.” “Mark presumes the ongoing role of the Jewish people.” “Matthew, Luke-Acts, and Paul emphatically affirm it.” “Acts even presents Paul as a Torah-observant Jew.”

“For them the Jewish people
are still Israel, a holy people,
upon whom the the redemption of the world
ultimately hinges.”

from “Postmissionary Messianic Judaism”

by Mark S. Kinzer, Brazos Press, 2005

“In the teachings of Jesus,
much like the world of Jewish learning,
attention is directed toward the reign of God and
following the instruction of Torah in daily life.”

“Observing Torah, in the mind of Jesus,
demanded radical action.”

from “The Parables”
by Brad Young, Hendrickson Publishers 1998

Noted Orthodox Rabbi, Ahron Soloveitchik
(Yeshiva University dean and head of Brisk Yeshiva in Chicago)
offered his own comments:

While he stated that he did not believe Menachem Schneerson to be the Messiah, he said that the idea of a Messiah who dies and is later resurrected “cannot be dismissed as a belief that is outside the pale of orthodoxy.”

Jewish Week-American Examiner, July 5, 1996
(from article: “Messiah Debate Swirls Anew” by Eric Greenberg)