tailieunhanh - A Review of David Klinghoffer’s

“No authentic Messiah would inspire a religion that ended up calling upon the Jews to reject the manifest meaning of Sinai. It is really that simple.” --David Klinghoffer, Why the Jews Rejected Jesus, p. 215. As we can see from the above citation, Klinghoffer has thrown down the gauntlet against Christ and Christianity. To set the stage for his treatise, Klinghoffer tells us that his book is the fruit of a twenty-year interest. In college he was challenged by a very astute Christian who concluded that Klinghoffer really didn’t understand his own reasons for not converting to Christianity. After. | A Review of David Klinghoffer s Why the Jews Rejected Jesus Doubleday 2005 by Robert Sungenis . Abridged No authentic Messiah would inspire a religion that ended up calling upon the Jews to reject the manifest meaning of Sinai. It is really that simple. --David Klinghoffer Why the Jews Rejected Jesus p. 215. As we can see from the above citation Klinghoffer has thrown down the gauntlet against Christ and Christianity. To set the stage for his treatise Klinghoffer tells us that his book is the fruit of a twenty-year interest. In college he was challenged by a very astute Christian who concluded that Klinghoffer really didn t understand his own reasons for not converting to Christianity. After college Klinghoffer considered marrying a very spiritually-minded Catholic girl with whom he had many theological discussions but he was still quite ignorant of his own Jewish religion. This changed when he met his future wife a Jewish girl who after being baptized in the Catholic Church later felt the magnetic pull of Judaism and left the church. This prompted Klinghoffer to begin defending Judaism not because he necessarily seeks to dissuade any of the world s two billion Christians from their faith but to tell a story of passionate disagreement pp. 9-10 . This soft-spoken disclaimer however belies a book that makes the adjective passionate a rather gross understatement. Simply put Klinghoffer is on a modern mission to debunk Christianity and in essence he is saying I rejected Jesus and you can too. Let me show you the reasons why you should. A Book with a Split-Personality In many ways the book has a split-personality. On the one hand Klinghoffer welcomes friendship with Christians. He sees a unique coinciding of Jewish with Christian interests. Jews have always had an interest .in illuminating the world with those truths of their faith and Christians. .are more curious than ever before about what Judaism can teach p. 6 . Moreover since 9 11 Jews increasingly have come .