[jimmyray]

As Klinghoffer notes, "For Jesus, oral Torah was a manmade accretion without transcendent authority. He tells a group of Pharisees, 'So for the sake of your tradition, you have made void the word of God.' ... This explains why he felt it was appropriate to teach solely on his own authority, rather than by citing previous sages."

Jesus taught on his own authority because he is God! BTW, he moved the prophets by his inspiration to write the scriptures, so he arguably knows what the intent is.

Incidentally, the reason the Jewish leaders killed Jesus was because he, "...a mere man, claim(ed) to be God" - John 10:33.

He did not deny it!

[onedoug]

Thus speaketh Paul, the Hellenist.

Hyam Macoby, Reovlution In Judaea.

[goldstategop]

Jesus' teaching was the same as the later Karaites: the written Torah is complete and understandable in its own terms. Mainstream Judaism rejected this view by observing that much of the Torah's rules are phrased in very general terms. For example, it speaks of the need to obey the Sabbath. How does one know how to do that? If you say common sense, well different people have different ideas for what passes for common sense. So that's no help. The Jewish solution posited that Moses was taught by God how to fulfill what was written in the Torah but God did not put it down on paper. Which is indeed exactly what happened. And one can speak therefore of two complementary Torahs, both invested with equal divine authority.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[Hand em their arse]

It's a little known fact Nawrmy, that uuhh, he is also apparently the ghost writer of the smash hit "Drop kick me Jesus, through the goal posts of life..."

[muir_redwoods]

"...the reason the Jewish leaders killed Jesus was..."

Syrian mercenaries of the Roman Empire killed Jesus, no one else.