HQXIIDBBL: I am not, after all, a heretic ~~~~~~~~
FROM EITHER THE ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN OR ORTHODOX JEWISH POINT OF VIEW, NEITHER A JUDAIZING CHRISTIAN NOR A MIN: A CHRISTIAN JEW, FOR ALL MY ATTRACTION TO CHRISTIANITY & CHRISTIANS! I DO NOT CHOOSE, IN ANY WAY, TO BE A "MESSIANIC" JEW, A JEW FOR JESUS, OR ANYTHING OF THAT SORT, BUT ACTUALLY, TO BE JUST A JEW, ACCORDING TO THE FLESH & ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT.
Let me state here the obvious, the simple, the straightforward & definitive: I do not believe that Yehoshua the son of a "Joseph of Natsereth" wàs (or ìs) THE MESSIAH, let alone do I subscribe to even higher christological glories ascribed to him as "Son of Gòd," I am not, I think, a Jew
against YESHUA but there is no credible sense in which I could be construed as a "Jew FÒR Yeshu" either. I do nòt séék, of course, covertly (as sometimes "Jews for Jesus" do) òr óvertly, to convert myself or any other Jew to Christianity, nòr claim that Christianity ìs THE TRUE JUDAISM, nòr preach that somehow Jews MÙST accept YOCHANAN as gospel truth. There ìs, therefore, a conundrum here!
On the one hand I occupy an "orthodox" - or at least quite conventional - form of Jewish identification, belief, & practice, but on the other hand, I find myself driven to write a [new] history that calls the very terms of that orthodox identity into question?
I need to figure out in what way the position of monster or heretic, calls me in order to discover the meaning of my work TO ME!
I think I read the record, in some sense, from the point of view of the hybrids, the heretics, not because I wish, then, to revive their particular religious modality, whether we call it Jewish Christian or find sòme òther náme for ìt, but because there is some other sense in which the position of those "monsters" is close enough to my own to call me to it, to identify wìith ìt, as my place!
For all the conventionality of my self-identification as orthodox Jew, I àm seriously out of step with my community at this moment, in a position of marginality that ìs [very] frequently quite painful to me?!
The present is a time in which Jewish orthodoxy has been re-defined as including the unquestioning support for a political entity, the State of Israel, and all of its martial adventures. My own vaun-ted "love" for Christianity has become suspect to me at this moment, for I am (WÉ ÁRE STÌLL!) writing at a time in which the Jews and the Christians (millennial enemies) are suddenly strange bedfellows {!}, collectively engaged in a war or wars against Muslims.
[Zie ook o.a. Yeshayahu Leibowitz & Uri Davis!]
Let me state here the obvious, the simple, the straightforward & definitive: I do not believe that Yehoshua the son of a "Joseph of Natsereth" wàs (or ìs) THE MESSIAH, let alone do I subscribe to even higher christological glories ascribed to him as "Son of Gòd," I am not, I think, a Jew
against YESHUA but there is no credible sense in which I could be construed as a "Jew FÒR Yeshu" either. I do nòt séék, of course, covertly (as sometimes "Jews for Jesus" do) òr óvertly, to convert myself or any other Jew to Christianity, nòr claim that Christianity ìs THE TRUE JUDAISM, nòr preach that somehow Jews MÙST accept YOCHANAN as gospel truth. There ìs, therefore, a conundrum here!
On the one hand I occupy an "orthodox" - or at least quite conventional - form of Jewish identification, belief, & practice, but on the other hand, I find myself driven to write a [new] history that calls the very terms of that orthodox identity into question?
I need to figure out in what way the position of monster or heretic, calls me in order to discover the meaning of my work TO ME!
I think I read the record, in some sense, from the point of view of the hybrids, the heretics, not because I wish, then, to revive their particular religious modality, whether we call it Jewish Christian or find sòme òther náme for ìt, but because there is some other sense in which the position of those "monsters" is close enough to my own to call me to it, to identify wìith ìt, as my place!
For all the conventionality of my self-identification as orthodox Jew, I àm seriously out of step with my community at this moment, in a position of marginality that ìs [very] frequently quite painful to me?!
The present is a time in which Jewish orthodoxy has been re-defined as including the unquestioning support for a political entity, the State of Israel, and all of its martial adventures. My own vaun-ted "love" for Christianity has become suspect to me at this moment, for I am (WÉ ÁRE STÌLL!) writing at a time in which the Jews and the Christians (millennial enemies) are suddenly strange bedfellows {!}, collectively engaged in a war or wars against Muslims.
[Zie ook o.a. Yeshayahu Leibowitz & Uri Davis!]
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