Did Jesus Replace Judaism? A Response to Andy Stanley - a podcast by Two Messianic Jews

Did Jesus oppose Judaism and come to replace it with his brand-new religion of Christianity? Was ancient Judaism a legalistic religion of works-righteousness? Did Jesus make the Law obsolete? Many people assume the answer to all these questions is yes. But is that true? In this video, we tackle these questions, building the case that the way Jesus teaches, lives, and debates situates him within Second Temple Judaism. Pastor Andy Stanley precisely articulates the way many Christians answer the questions above. So, in this video, we interact with some of the points he makes in his book, Irresistible: Reclaiming the New that Jesus Unleashed for the World.   



0:00 - Intro

2:54 - What did "Judaism" mean during the time of Jesus?

4:33 - The fundamental problem with the idea that Jesus opposed Judaism

6:54 - Jesus teaches the heart of the Torah (Mark 12.30-31)

13:57 - Jesus wears tzitzit and tefillin (Matt 9.20; 23.5) 15:25 - Jesus observes Jewish traditions

16:13 - Jesus debates with Pharisees on what is lawful on the Sabbath (Matt 12.11-13)

28:11 - Was ancient Judaism a legalistic religion of works-righteousness?  

35:38 - Did Jesus make the Law obsolete? (Response to Pastor Andy Stanley's reading of Matt 5.17)

46:06 - Summary 47:07 - Current scholarship on Jesus within Judaism

49:31 - Conclusion  



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Noted works:  



Boyarin, Daniel. “Semantic Differences; or ‘Judaism’/‘Christianity’.” In The Ways that Never Parted: Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, edited by Annette Yokisho Reed and Adam H. Becker, 65-85. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2007.



Flusser, David. Jesus. 3rd ed. Jerusalem: The Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2001.  



Levine, Amy-Jill. A Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus. New York: HarperCollins, 2006.  



Runesson, Anders. Divine Wrath and Salvation in Mathew: The Narrative World of the First Gospel. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2016.  



Sanders, E. P. Paul and Palestinian Judaism: A Comparison of Patterns of Religion. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1977.  



Thiessen, Matthew. "Abolishers of the Law in Early Judaism and Matthew 5,17-20." Biblica 93, no. 4 (2012): 543-56.  



---. Jesus and the Forces of Death: The Gospels' Portrayal of Ritual Impurity Within First-Century Judaism. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2020.  



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