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  Questions.org Answers to Tough Questions About God and Life Menu Skip to content Search for: Why Did Many Jewish Leaders Hate Jesus Christ and the Apostolic Church? Dan Vander Lugt Christianity ,  World Religions ethnic identity ,  Jesus Christ ,  Judaism ,  legal righteousness ,  messiah ,  New Testament ,  oral law ,  Paul ,  persecution Some people have the impression that Jewish hostility for Christianity began only after Jews experienced persecution by Christians. Actually, Jewish hostility toward Jesus Christ and His church began long before Jews experienced persecution by Christians. Biblical scholar N. T. Wright summarized the reason for Jewish rejection of Jesus and the church: What evokes persecution is precisely that which challenges a worldview, that which up-ends a symbolic universe. (N. T. Wright,  The New Testament and the People of God , Fortress Press, p. 451)  1 Jesus taught that Jewish nationalism and commitment to the “oral law” (“traditions of men”) distorted the

   Al Islam Library Response to Allegations Understanding Ahmadiyyat   Share Crucifixion in the Jewish Literature by Ansar Raza Some scholars argue that crucifixion is not a form of death sentence in Jewish law, but a Roman death sentence.  According to them, it was not the Jews but the Roman governor who killed Jesus. However, the study of Jewish literature reveals that in pre-Christian era, hanging of criminals on trees was practiced under the Jewish law as a death sentence.  A criminal was hung either alive or dead and deemed accursed by God on the authority of the following passages. Hanging / Crucifixion in Old Testament “Then the LORD said to Moses, ‘Take all the leaders of the people and hang the offenders before the LORD, out in the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may turn away from Israel’.” (Numbers 25:4 New King James Version) “If a man has committed a sin deserving of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,  23  his body shall not remain overnight