p> In one way, conservative Christians and conservative Jews are alike in how they look at the Hebrew Bible. That way is connected to the idea of the Bible as being literally true in regard to miracles. Conservative Christians are different from conservative Jews in another way. That way is in the fact that they think the whole Bible is about Christians and God, not Jews and God. These conservative Christians think the Hebrew Bible predicts that Jesus Christ will get born and fix everything for all Jews. That means conservative Christians do not agree with conservative Jews about why the Hebrew Bible is important. That idea gets summed up by Stan Goldman.
Christian students, however, tend to view the prophetic writings as normative because their traditions reorder and close the Hebrew Bible with the Later Prophets as typologically foreshadowing the Christ. For Jews, all of the prophets turn us back, via allusions and quotations, to the Torah--not forward to the Christ (Goldman 208).
Goldman makes another statement about the Christian idea of the Hebrew Bible: "The
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