Messianic Prophecy
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Is it Reasonable to Believe that Jesus is the Messiah?
If we were to listen only to the majority voices within Judaism for the last 1,500 years, then it may be clear why we ought to disregard Jesus’s claims. First off, Jewish people don’t believe in Jesus: only Christians do. Then there is the fact that Jesus didn’t end antisemitism around the world, but rather… Continue reading
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Psalm 22 and “They Pierced My Hands and Feet”
In the sixteenth century, Christian publisher Daniel Bomberg was commissioned to publish the first Mikraot Gedolot (Rabbinic Bible) using the newly invented printing press. Reportedly, as he was preparing the proofs for Psalm 22:16 (v. 17 in Jewish Bibles),[1] one of his Jewish proofreaders drew his attention to a single word: כארו (ka’aru). This word… Continue reading