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Title: an excellent guide to how Jews (or at least Orthodox Jews) think
Review: I thought this book was an excellent guide to the core differences between traditional Judaism and Christianity: to summarize briefly, Christianity believes that the Messiah has already come and has abrogated parts of the Torah, and Jews believe that the Messiah has not yet come, because the Messiah (1) would uphold the Torah and (2) would establish a utopian Jewish state in Israel.Many of the hostile reviews of this book, much to my surprise, came from Christians who sought to argue with this view. I think that these reviews miss the point of the book: These reviewers seem to think that Klinghoffer was seeks to provide a comprehensive refutation of Christianity, while (in my opinion) Klinghoffer was merely trying to briefly summarize the Jewish view and to explain to Christians: "This is what your Jewish neighbors are thinking."
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