Rabbi Dr. Alan Brill writes in "Judaism and Other Religions: An Orthodox perspective"<ref>[http://www.bc.edu/research/cjl/meta-elements/texts/cjrelations/resources/articles/Brill.htm Source: "Judaism and Other Religions: An Orthodox perspective" by Rabbi Dr. Alan Brill]:</ref>
Yaakov Emden is an exemplar of a traditionalist pulpit rabbi and talmudist in Hamburg responding to the Eighteenth century Enlightenment and ideals of tolerance all around him. He stretches the traditional inclusivist position into universal directions.
===Rabbi Jacob Emden's Letter (Seder Olam Rabbah Vezuta)===
Rabbi Jacob Emden's view on Christianityt and the Noachide Commandments:<ref>[http://www.auburn.edu/~allenkc/falk1a.html Reprinted from the Journal of Ecumenical Studies, 19:1, Winter 1982]
For it is recognized that also the Nazarene and his disciples, especially Paul, warned concerning the Torah of the Israelites, to which all the circumcised are tied. And if they are truly Christians, they will observe their faith with truth, and not allow within their boundary this new unfit Messiah Shabbetai Zevi<ref>(Shabbetai Zevi, a seventeenth-century mystic [d. 1676], represented himself as the Messiah, and many Jews initially believed his claim. When the Turks threatened him with death unless he converted to Islam, he meekly acquiesced, expiring in ignominy. However, secret cells of believers still followed his teachings and hoped for new leadership.)</ref> who came to destroy the earth.