This is another point of view that I can't wrap my mind around. It seems to me completely obvious that Christianity appropriated and repurposed the Torah as part of a brand new religion that had never existed before. That's not a condemnation of Christianity -- it wouldn't be the first religion to have reimagined or reinterpreted then-existing religion.
For several years, we were regularly visited by a Jehovah's witness named Ida. Sadly, she has since been assigned to a different area and doesn't come by any more. I started talking with her after she learned that I had been raised LDS and had lots of questions about Mormonism. I really enjoyed the conversations we had from month to month. She nicknamed me "the atheist." Even today, I can ask a Witness if they know Ida and ask them to tell her that "the atheist" says hello.
On one visit, she asked if her husband could sit in the next time. Basically, he wanted to set the atheist straight. I said sure. He came to the house on the next visit and led with all of the Old Testament prophecies that Jesus fulfilled. I responded that it was not difficult to create a story that fulfilled prophecies when the creators of the story know the prophecies in advance. He reacted as if he'd never thought of that before and moved on.
One has only to look at the thousands of claims that Nostradamus predicted specific events in modern times to see how easy it is to interpret an ancient text as predicting then-current events. It's difficult for me to understand why I should not view Christianity's reading Jesus into the Torah as anything different.
I can read (and have read) both books. Yaweh is nothing like Jesus Christ. I don't need centuries of theologians massaging texts to tell me how I should read the Torah through a Christian lens. That seems very circular to me.
