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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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  • Jonathan Dawayne Brackens

    (School of Law, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA 02747-2300, USA)

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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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  • Jonathan Dawayne Brackens, 2024. "An Artificial Review of Jesus’s Torah Compliance and What That Might Mean for Jews and Gentile Christians," Laws, MDPI, vol. 13(3), pages 1-32, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jlawss:v:13:y:2024:i:3:p:36-:d:1411937
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