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 == Documented History == 

 A number of editors on this page, clearly in opposition to the existence of the article, continue to push a POV that MJ is a modern invention by crafty Christians to mislead ""ignorant Jews"" (Lisa's words) Their ""source materials"" are opinion pieces from anti-missionary blog sites.  They impugn my honor by ignoring original source materials and documented external eyewitness accounts of the movement.   

 It's not about how old Judaism is. Comments like the one from Brewcrewer that ""non-messianic judaism is way older then 100 years. so beat that!"" prove it's digressed to blustering and name calling.  We all have a point of view, a worldview.  I'm trying earnestly to leave mine out of this to provide an informed description of those that call themselves Messianic Judaism.  If only others would do the same, and quit trying to 'tag' every other paragraph with anti-MJ slander. 

 We can agree it began when God created Adam and Eve some 6000 years ago, confirmed to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and that the precepts were codified by Moses & his apprentice Joshua in the desert. We can agree on the accuracy of Tanakh, but not on interpretation.  These editors and their sources prooftext the Prophets' writings to say Jesus was a non-event in history, and the sources I read disagree.  The sources I read say there were well-meaning Jews in the 1800s who came to the same conclusions that Hus & Zwingli did a few hundred years earlier, that Jesus really was Messiah, and then Cohn & others sought to tell whoever would listen what they believed.  It took a while - and modern technology - to reach a tipping point of growth, and after a century, they burst into general consciousness.  As Gladwell said in 'Outliers' it takes a long time of preparation before a person (or movement) gets noticed. 

 What I wrote was not ""revisionist"" history.  Just because it doesn't fit your pre-existing paradigm doesn't make it false.  (The earth is not flat, nor does the sun revolve around it.)  Try to open your mind to the option that what MJs say about themselves is true for them and those who earnestly want to learn.  And leave it at that.  "