Last month, the Biblical Mind—a mostly-Christian publication deeply committed to learning form Jewish approaches to the Hebrew Bible—published an article titled “Jesus Restored the Original Purpose of the Law in the New Testament.” The article, and the headline in particular, elicited some sharp criticism from readers, a decision to retitle it, and then confusion over that decision from other readers. At issue is supersessionism: the idea, rejected by many Christian theologians and endorsed by others, that with the founding of Christianity God revoked Jews’ chosen status. In its more sinister versions, supersessionism implies that the Jews are, far from being a nation like any other, a people singled out by divine rejection.
In conversation with Biblical Mind’s founder Dru Johnson, Rabbi Ari Lamm discusses the original article and the responses to it, this thorny history, and some of the toughest questions of Jewish-Christian dialogue.
Read more on Biblical Mind: https://hebraicthought.org/podcast/supersessionism-controversy-tbm-article-ari-lamm/