Do all Christians, while learning about the (preamble?) to their Bible, eschew the thousands of years of Jewish commentary on the Torah (the Five Books of Moses, Genesis to Deuteronomy?) Or does any Christian sect accept Jewish commentary from any time period or to any level? (Midrash [written before the birth of Christianity] or to what I would assume to be a lesser extent, the Talmud [written between 200 and 600 CE [Jewish for AD....])? Full stop. I assume lesser extent because I’m sure the charge would be made that “The rabbis” contorted Jewish dogma and history to defend against Christianity.
Anyhoo.... Abraham’s calling?? G-d told him to go... Full stop.
I’ll be looking forward to any Christian responses to this question.
My experience has been that not only do Christians reject Jewish commentary, the also even reject the very idea that Jews could know anything about their own ancient history outside of what is recorded in the Bible. The idea that Nitzevet was the mother of David, or that Shem took the initiative at communicating knowledge of God, is simply dismissed as “Jewish fairy tales”.
The Christian perspective would be that the people who would kill their own Messiah are a fallen and apostate people. The Midrash themselves are more philosophy, than theology and perhaps while well thought aren’t of God, but of men. Christians have plenty of philosophers so the fierce competition would tend to preculde “upstart” Jews.
Catholics and the Orthodox would dismiss the supra-Biblical perspective of the Jews by continuity. That is the covenant now belongs to them via the authority of Jesus Christ and his commission. Protestants would be partial in part to the same argument bolstered by the Bible as their source for authority. They’d decline Jewish learning or philosophy that didn’t assist in clarifying the interpretation of the Bible, particularly if it was contra their beliefs.
Restorationist Christians wouldn’t have any need for Jewish knowledge as they go direct to the Source, God himself. They might parse it like a Protestant, but again they’d ignore whatever didn’t confirm their beliefs.