Isaiah 53 and the Salvation of the Jewish People
July 19, 2010 | 8 Comments
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July 19th, 2010 @ 8:34 pm
Very awesome!
July 20th, 2010 @ 12:21 pm
Listening to the Rabbi’s objections and other debates with Rabbi Singer and Rabbi Blumofe. We can see that even if Dr. Brown openly and clearly rebuts their objections with the word of God they seem to be dead set on their believes.
We can only pray that revelation comes to the Jewish people that indeed Yeshua is the Messiah and that we as believers can be God’s vessel to Jew and gentile.
Dr. Brown, may the Lord continue to use you and may you and your family be greatly blessed.
Raul
July 20th, 2010 @ 1:46 pm
I can’t wait to hear the debate. The answers for objections in the series are really well linked with each other. If the antimissionary rabbi would remember dr.Brown’s 2.10 answer he didn’t need to get into a heaviness. So let them do their homework better next time.
July 22nd, 2010 @ 5:10 pm
Why has Dr. Brown not responded to the articles critiquing his writings that are posted on jewsforjudaism.org? I am referring to the articles entitled “Contra Brown – Answering Dr. Brown’s Objections to Judaism” and “The Elephant and the Suit”
These articles put up arguments that refute many of Dr. Brown’s core arguments and bring up some more arguments that Dr. Brown has never responded to.
The first of these two articles contains a lengthy piece on Isaiah 53 that directly attacks Dr. Brown’s arguments on this specific passage.
Why has Dr. Brown not responded?
Chaim
August 2nd, 2010 @ 11:46 pm
Chaim,
I just spotted your note here, and I responded to it in your most recent post. For the sake of those reading here, however, the answers are:
1) Rabbi Yisroel Blumenthal, the author of these articles, is a dear friend of mine, and we try to talk at length by phone every week. He sent me the articles before they were ever posted, so I am well aware of them.
2) To date, we have not received emails from Jewish believers in Yeshua who have been confused by the articles, so there has been no sense of urgency to provide refutations.
3) As time permits, I am writing refutations of these articles, beginning with “Correcting Contra Brown,” and I’m confident that once these articles are posted, they will not only dispel Rabbi Blumenthal’s criticisms (and I say this with all respect to my friend’s erudition), but they will indicate that the truth is on the side of those who confess Yeshua as Messiah. (This will be seen with particular clarity with regard to Isaiah 53.)
August 3rd, 2010 @ 5:07 pm
Here is the prevalent rabbinic opinion of Isaiah 53:
“Isaiah 53 contains a deeply moving narrative which world leaders will cry aloud in the messianic age. The humbled kings of nations (52:15) will confess that Jewish suffering occurred as a direct result of “our own iniquity,” (53:5) i.e., depraved Jew-hatred, rather than, as they previously thought, the stubborn blindness of the Jews.”
http://www.outreachjudaism.org/sin.html
Isaiah 53:8b
“For he was cut off from the land of the living;
for the transgression of my people he was stricken.”
Rabbinical translation:
“For MY PEOPLE (he) was cut off from the land of the living;
for the transgression of MY PEOPLE, MY PEOPLE were stricken.
Go, (dis)figure.
August 3rd, 2010 @ 5:35 pm
Very good, Dr. Brown. I have posted this to my Facebook page. I wrote a piece on this in April, after listening to Israel Radio’s Rabbi Singer.
http://spirituality.org.au/?p=169 As I say in my article, Isaiah 53 is central to the claim of Jesus to be Israel’s Messiah. Keep up your excellent work! (Author of “The return of the Royal Priesthood” and “Faith: God’s Gift to the Human Heart.”)
August 15th, 2010 @ 9:44 pm
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