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Episode: Is the God of Today's Judaism the Same as the God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob?
Description: Many Christians, especially Christian Zionists, believe that the religion of Judaism today is the same as was the religion of the Israelites of the Old Testament, except there are no animal sacrifices now. We Hold These Truths' Craig Hanson does an excellent job delving into the subject and analyzing Michael Hoffman's book, "Judaism's Strange Gods." In the book, Christian scholar Michael Hoffman documents his provocative thesis that Judaism is not the religion of the Old Testament, but the newly formalized belief system of the Pharisees, which arose in Babylon with the commitment of the formally, oral traditions of the...