{"id":19431,"date":"2010-05-27T10:28:01","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T18:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=19431"},"modified":"2010-05-28T11:08:45","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T19:08:45","slug":"why-arent-jews-debating-believers-in-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=19431","title":{"rendered":"Why Aren’t Jews Debating Believers In Jesus?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zorn blogs<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\nThe obituary — Moishe Rosen dies at 78; founder of Jews for Jesus prompts me to ask readers about something that’s long mystified and impressed me:<\/p>\n

“Given that the divinity of Jesus is the core belief of the dominant religion in America and that, with the exception of the small number of followers of Mr. Rosen’s movement, Jews reject this belief, why do we see so little public debate over the evidence?”<\/p>\n

Mystified because these are extremely important conclusions to have drawn over claims for a man who was, after all, himself Jewish. You’d think there’d be dozens of point-counterpoint books and regular public debates about such a central matter.<\/p>\n

Impressed because the lack of such inter-faith engagement suggests that, for the most part, we realize such theological arguments are not only irreconcilable, but they have also historically devolved from disagreement into discord and strife.<\/p>\n

Perhaps I’m missing a vast body of at least semi-scholarly “he is too!” “he is not!” colloquia. If so, I’d be grateful for a few links. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rabbi Gil Student writes<\/a>: <\/p>\n

\nAfter the death of a famous Christian missionary to Jews, a blogger for the Chicago Tribune asks why there is so little debate from Jews about the divinity of the founder of Christianity (link<\/a>). I don’t know what he is talking about. There are many books on the subject. Here are some of them. I found the first two in particular to be useful:<\/p>\n