Why do Christians reject the Talmud?

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“My strength became dried out like a potsherd, and my tongue cleaves to my palate; and You set me down in the dust of death. For dogs have surrounded me; a band of evildoers has encompassed me, like a lion, my hands and feet. I tell about all my bones. They look and gloat over me.“ - Psalm 22:16-18
 
The question of who wrote what and whether they died for it isn’t as obvious as you - apparently - think.
Wow, wow. Christianity has a somewhat more reliable account of authorship in the New Testament than Judaism has in this regard of the Old. We exactly know who wrote the Gospels, the Acts, the Letters and the Book of Revelation, perhaps except the Letter to the Hebrews. In contrast, hardly any author of the Ancient Judaic literature is known. My favorite question is this:

How many prophets called Isaiah are in the book of Isaiah? One, two, three? Or even more? Who knows the answer?


How many Isaiah’s
 
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things are true because you say they are,
Christianity has a different concept of truth from Judaism. We believe the ultimate truth in faith matters in Jesus Christ. We also believe in archaeological, historical and literary evidence. In Judaism, in contrast, truth is pronounced by imposition.
 
You know there is only one Isaiah.
Internal literary evidence, meaning the text itself, shows very clearly that what you claim is simply impossible.

 
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we have the means to beat you folks (who say the Bible was edited), into submission.
In this particular question there is a consent of modern scholarship that will be very hard to “beat into submission”.
 
Thank you @Rabbi. I really appreciate all of your replies. I will have to go over them slowly, and because of our time differences, it will be a while before I can go over all the intricate details, and to be honest, it will probably be a long time before I totally understand, because of my lack of knowledge in Hebrew. But thank you!
 
No, actually, it is disputed who wrote Mark, Matthew, Luke and John. It’s not so simple and it’s not in your interest to say Isaiah did not write Isaiah or Moses did not write Torah, because Jesus quoted so much from them, lest he was not the son of G-d and was duped like the rest of us into thinking the Bible divine. Obviously, our Chazal would not lie to us.
 
I read your work here, and to be frank, that’s an undoubtedly fairly crazy stretch. Replacing Jacob with heal, ignoring the clear sentence structure, and the well known root מכר and then what in the world is it doing in that context? Lehavdil, it reminds me of some modern midrashic treatments, where you try to force a message back into a text and say it was hidden there the whole time. if you get what I’m saying.

Again, kaari is a common expression in psalms for scenes of persecution: my enemies are at me like wild animals. Kaaru is a reverse-translation from the LXX (Septuagint - Greek Bible) which reads “they have dug or pierced me,” in Psalm 22.

The most important thing to note about Psalm 22 - whatever the translation of that one word is (and there’s a darn good chance it isn’t kaaru, as its just pure invention - it isn’t a prediction!! It doesn’t predict or prophecise anything about anyone. Like a dozen or so other “lament” passages, Psalms 22 expresses a stressful event in the past of the poet (David or someone else), followed by an expression of hope for deliverance in the future. Now it is true that some, like Rashi, pointed to Israel’s exile, but if we were just to take this psalm at face value, in its peshat form, it’s obvious that the chapter in question is about King David.
 
Are you Orthodox by chance? You sound so, no offense if this isn’t the case. you and I should work together in shoving the Documentary Hypothesis theory into submission.
 
lest he was not the son of G-d
I assure you that despite your denial Jesus is the Son of God. He even quoted the Torah for the Jew to reveal its content for them. Some got the message and became Christians. Some others preferred to worship the text instead of listening, refused Him and sent Him to die on the cross. Jesus did not quote the Torah for the Gentiles, because the Gentiles don’t give a hoot to Jewish Torah. Gentiles became Christians because of the person, not because of the text.
 
See, this is where you make no sense. So how can you believe in Jesus, and not believe Isaiah wrote Isaiah?
 
I don’t appreciate your taunting and insult of others in this forum. It it probably against the rules of CAF that you have apparently never read. You treat people with different opinion with incredible arrogance. Then you ask why do Christians reject the Talmud? Perhaps because it is you who are advocating it. 🤣
 
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Are you one of those nuts who goes around bashing Talmud? Saying it says all kinds of horrible things about Jesus and is racist against non-Jews? If so, that’s not the case. No, I’m not trying to be hostile towards you, I apologize I came off that way.
 
The notion that Jesus got his teaching from Buddhism has been debunked before.
It is not that Jesus was a Buddhist. It is that the teaching of Jesus and Buddhism share some common thoughts and literary forms.
 
Do you have supporting evidence for the Buddhism hypothesis?
Shared thoughts and literary forms are evidence that Jesus was familiar with Buddhist tenets. His biography has big enough gaps to allow traveling and gathering experiences beyond Galilea.
 
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Ok, for one thing, let’s not care for the opinions of those who are critics of the Bible, because they’re not G-d, and they have a baggage of biases which they carry with them. I want to explain something to you, and that’s the history of this goofy theory, because Isaiah wrote all 66 chapters, and your facts are not based on some linguistic study, they’re based on atheists, who don’t believe in the G-d of Israel. For example, when Isaiah says in Ch. 45:1 that Cyrus, who lived a century later, would be king, he meant it (see 44:28 for the fulfillment). My point? Of course an atheist who doesn’t believe in the Bible is going to say Isaiah couldn’t have possibly wrote that, but what do you think their going to say!!!

Now, as you’ll recall, this theory was first purposed by, oh - not by Ibn Ezra, give me a break - but by Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677 CE). Later, it received growing pains and the theory was redeveloped a few times by some other guys, the most famous being Dr. Julius Wellhausen. It was him, who, in 1895, selected the dates to J, E, D, P, and R, even though he conveniently forgot to compare that data with other ancient Hebraic sources to see if they matched up. In other words, it was more along the lines of a wild, and totally uneducated, guess, and perhaps the notion of a redactor suited him well since it paralleled German unification and culture and served as a sort of metaphor for what he’d like to have seen happen with his own nation. Moreover, Wellhausen’s agenda was to pattern Judaism after Christianity, being that there were now also four “contradictory” accounts of a recorded event (i.e., Tanakh). Hence, according to the secular world, the Hebrew Bible became nothing more than a man-made document, a laughingstock, evolving over time, and full with all its fabricated flaws. This, of course, it totally false, and the following data of mine will prove it.
 
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