In his book, Twenty-six reasons why Jews don’t believe in Jesus, Asher Norman claims that “Jesus failed to fulfil any of six authentic Jewish messianic criteria”. Jesus’ first supposed failure, namely that he could not be from the tribe of Judah without a biological father, is dealt with in an earlier article. We now consider whether Jesus […]

Judaism ascribes the many obvious and fundamental differences between its own practices and the religion of the Bible to an oral law and tradition: “The Jewish People are frequently called ‘the People of the Book’; yet if one were to search out a people who follow the teachings of the Written Law (Torah sheBichtav) literally, […]

This is a further response to claims that Jesus was not “a perfect being” and “not without sin”. In an earlier study we dealt with an objection to Jesus calling a disciple to follow him at the expense of attending his father’s burial (see “A Christian response to Asher Norman’s claim that Jesus sinned”.) Another example […]

In his book, Twenty-six reasons why Jews don’t believe in Jesus, Asher Norman states a common objection of the rabbis: “The Messiah ben David must be Jewish, from the Tribe of Judah … Under Jewish law, tribal affiliation is through the birth father only. Since Jesus allegedly had no human father, he had no tribal affiliation. Therefore, […]

The cover of Asher Norman’s book, “Twenty-Six Reasons why Jews don’t believe in Jesus,” contains a number of enthusiastic endorsements of this work: “An intense and powerful work. Had I only read the first pages, I would not have become involved in messianic Judaism for ten years.” – Paul (Pesach) H. Goodley, M.D. (Former leader […]