Contra Brown -- Article Refuiting Michael Brown at J 4 Jews

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Jews for Judaism has just published a PDF file to address Michael Brown because he is so prolific. They have chosen to do so by responding to his dialog with Lee Strobel, so it should be of particular interest to you since this person referenced Strobel's book. They call it "Contra Brown":

The time has come to pen a response to the arguments of Dr. Brown. The sheer volume of his work prevents me from responding to every last one of his arguments in the space of this brief article. Yet there are some core arguments that represent the mainstay of Dr. Brown's reasoning. In an interview with Lee Strobel , Dr. Brown puts forth the salient points of his position. In the following article we hope to demonstrate why these central elements of Dr. Brown's position are untenable.

This particular article was written by Rabbi Yisroel C. Blumenthal.

http://www.jewsforjudaism.org

http://www.jewsforjudaism.org/index2.ph ... &Itemid=47

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Here are the Table of Contents from the PDF file:

CONTRA BROWN
Answering Dr. Brown’s Objections to Judaism


Table of Contents

I. Who is Dr. Brown? -4

II. The real Jewish objections -5


1. The totality of scripture -6
2. Faith structure -10
3. The relationship that the Jewish people shared with G-d -11

III. Messianic prophecies -12

A. The Messianic era according -12
B. Son of David? -14
C. Psalm 22 and a light to the gentiles -15
D. Must the Messiah appear before 70 C.E.? -15


1. Haggai 2:6-9 -16
2. Malachi 3:1-4 -18
3. Daniel 9:24 -27 -18
4. Yoma 39b -20

E. Priestly King -21


1. Zechariah 6:9-15 -22
2. Psalm 110 -23
3. Messiah is not the only priest -24

F. Isaiah 53 -24

1. The identity of the servant -24
2. What did the Rabbis say? -25
3. The innocence of the servant -26
4. The suffering of the servant -27
5. The exaltation of the servant -28

IV Is the Messiah to be Divine? -32


A. Genesis 18 and Exodus 24 -32
B. The exalted nature of the Davidic king -33
C. Daniel 7:13 -34

V. Atonement -35

A. Brown’s solution to a Chrstian problem -35

1. Talmud commentaries -35
2. The centrality of the offerings -35
3. The path from Leviticus 17:11 to Hebrews 10:4 -35

B. The Talmud commentaries in context -36

C. The centrality of the offerings in context -38

D. From Leviticus 17:11 to Ezekiel 11:16 -39


1. The suffering of the righteous -39
2. Life for a life -39
3. Who replaced the sacrifices? -41

VI. A call to my Messianic brothers and sisters -43

Footnotes -44