ABSTRACT
Millenarianism has the ability to inspire Christians to more deeply affirm Judaism as a sister religion, and get to know Jesus as the Son of God and the messiah of the world in ways that take serious the Jewish roots of the "Man of the cross". In an attempt to illustrate how the millenarian principle expresses a rejection of such supersessionist claims, this chapter outlines some general points that appear to be most common to many Jewish visions of God's coming kingdom. In general, the concept of the resurrection of the dead is intertwined with Jewish liturgical and prayer practices. Moltmann's eschatological millennium and its primary features are considered the "space" for the "overspill" of divine promise that exists for both the Church and Israel. Jewish scholar Michael Wyschogrod has successfully argued that the doctrine of the incarnation is a focused and intensified augmentation of the original Jewish doctrines of divine indwelling.
