2.5 Conclusion

At the beginning of this essay I asked two questions by which I hoped to develop an understanding of the Messianic Jewish movement in Israel. The first question was:

What are the similarities and differences of the four types of groups of the Israeli Messianic Jewish movement, regarding their physical arrangements and their interactions, cultural with the supernatural, and social-structural, internal among and between themselves, and external with the Christian and Jewish community?

After the previous, subsequent description of the four types of the movement, by means of the framework for the study of religion that Droogers developed, their similarities and differences became apparent in detail and can now be considered. While one could assume a conclusion to be „the final word” on an issue, at least in an essay that must not necessarily be so. An essay can be defined as „a tentative effort”. As living, changing human beings make up the movement, any description of it should not claim more than to be tentative. Already in my research I found that groups can shift positions and appearance, and individuals can change even faster and more radically. First, I will summarize on the physical arrangements, then on supernatural interaction, then on the internal social structure, and I will close with the external social structure. After the concluding summary of the structured description I will treat the various aspects in a further leading consideration in section 2.6.