Messianic Judaism Quest

I just came across the following article written by Daniel Lancaster of FFOZ. The full article is below, but Lancaster makes a statement that I believe is incorrect: “Whether you realize it or not, it is the Holocaust that is responsible for the birth of the modern state of Israel and the reassessment of Christian tradition and theology.”

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An interesting post on the perspectives of Rabbi Dan Cohn-Sherbok on the subject of Messianic Judaism. He visited the Messianic Jewish Alliance Conference in 1998, and I believe also visited an annual conference of the Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations.

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Its important to note that the statements below are based upon the classical Jewish relationship between the Written Torah and Oral Torah, and in turn on rabbinic “legislation.” This is a point many Messianics fail to understand. Rabbinic legislation is designated as “d’Rabban” while those commandments derived from the Torah are referred to as D’Oraita.

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I believe that a view of “Jewish Christianity” or “Christian Judaism” to use the scholarly terms for the earliest Jewish followers of Yeshua recognizes that there was not a monolithic expression among the various circles that embraced the messianic claims of Yeshua. That being said, this will be a complicated task and to some extent the practical implementation of this will be reflective of the underlying Jewish background and experiences of each messianic community just as it exists within the normative Jewish community.

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We often hear that Messianic Judaism is representative of “Biblical Judaism” or of being “Biblically Jewish.” The exact meanings of these phrases are always complicated and often convoluted. What they imply is that “Rabbinic Judaism” is by default unbiblical.

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So if I append “Jewish” as an adjective to the term “Messianic Judaism” is this not redundant? Well, unfortunately it appears not. The simple reality is that most groups identifying themselves under the label “messianic Jewish” are far from what is traditionally understood as Jewish.

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