Should Jesus Get Tenure?: Jesus as a Moral Teacher and the Vocation of Teaching Christian Ethics

Verhey, Allen

doi:10.1353/sce.2014.0050

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“…There are three views within the observant camp: (1) complete obedience to the Torah (Bjork 2021;Douglas et al 1989;Bernauer 2020;Przybylski 2004), (2) the obedience of Jesus to his reinterpreted but intensified Torah (Allison 2013;Neusner 2017;Sumney 2021), and (3) the obedience of Jesus via pluralistic Judaism (Blanton 2013;Küng and Lapide 1977;Martin 2012;Sadeh 1989;Stahl 2015). There are also three views within the nonobservant camp: (1) complete disobedience (Cuvillier 2009), (2) partial Torah abrogation (Bornkamm 1963;Meier 1976;Verhey 2014), and (3) complete Torah abrogation (Harvey 2017;Marcovich 2015).…”

Section: Overview Of the Perspectives Of Jesus's Torah Compliancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Sumney (2021) further states that Jesus is the Torah's "authoritative interpreter" (Sumney 2021, p. 278). Others, such as Carter (2005) and Verhey (2014), argue that the Torah was deficient in speaking to contemporary issues and the average person's needs. Thus, Jesus-as a "man of the people"-supplemented the law with new, relevant ethical teaching (Carter 2005, p. 144).…”

Section: Torah-observant Campmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Most scholars in the non-Torah-observant camp acknowledge that Jesus did not observe the entire Torah because he abrogated portions of the Torah (Bornkamm 1963;Meier 1976;Strecker 1966;Verhey 2014). For example, Meier (1976) and Bornkamm (1963) hold that Matthew's Jesus's third (Matthew 5:31-32), fifth , and last antitheses (Matthew 5:43-47) reflect partial Torah abrogation.…”

Section: Non-torah-observant Campmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, Meier (1976) and Bornkamm (1963) hold that Matthew's Jesus's third (Matthew 5:31-32), fifth , and last antitheses (Matthew 5:43-47) reflect partial Torah abrogation. Verhey (2014) takes abrogation further by extrapolating Jesus's teachings within the Gospels and establishing a precedential system/framework that details when an exegete should defer to Jesus's laws instead of the Torah. Verhey (2014) states that Jesus's teaching compels Christian exegetes to (1) assume the supremacy of Jesus's authority over his nonmastery of the law and tradition, (2) promote good news "to the poor and marginalized", (3) celebrate contemporary expressions of point one, and (4) "lament and resist" contradictions of Jesus's supremacy (Verhey 2014, pp.…”

Section: Non-torah-observant Campmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The second subdivision contains those such as Honecker (1997), who create a more simplistic framework than Verhey (2014) by elevating Jesus's command to love as the precedential rule. To them, every law not perceived as flowing from or implemented with love is estopped in the case at bar, so long as it can be applied lovingly in a future case; otherwise, it is abrogated.…”

Section: Non-torah-observant Campmentioning

confidence: 99%

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An Artificial Review of Jesus’s Torah Compliance and What That Might Mean for Jews and Gentile Christians

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2024

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The Torah is central to Judaism. Jesus’s relationship with it sparks conflict with Christianity. Some Jews think that Jesus violated the Torah, while some Christians believe that he sinlessly followed it. This clash escalated on 22 June 2023, when Ultra-Orthodox Jews protested a Messianic convention in Jerusalem. Social media videos and comments highlighted Jesus’s purported Torah compliance, placing Matthew 5:17 at the center stage. The comments proved indicative of the gaps within the literature as neither determined all the unique Written and Oral Torahic/legal issues raised within the Gospels nor quantified the extent of Jesus’s compliance. To address these gaps, this study employs artificial intelligence (LDA), statistics, and legal analysis and exegesis to determine Jesus’s compliance with the Torah, Mishnah, Talmud, and Mishneh Torah. The findings show the Gospels’ consensus: Mark, Luke, and John reflect that Jesus was non-Torah-compliant (14.80, 43.80, and 0.00%, respectively); Matthew states otherwise (70.80%). Overall, the study revealed that Jesus kept 79 of 162 Written and Oral Torah laws (48.80%). This study has significant implications for Christian doctrines, the definition(s) of sin, and the missionizing ethnoreligion members and serves as a case study that illustrates AI’s impact on religious authority (i.e., clergy, scholarship, and doctrines).

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