The gospel of Mark

And so the radical newness brought by Jesus spells the end of Judaism - not just first century Judaism, with its various abuses, but the OT system of life set down by God's own law. The coming of the bridegroom abolished even God's own religion. The religion of the OT was an elaborate system that effectively taught that God kept his distance from sinners. Even though Israel rejoiced at the presence of God among them, that presence was paradoxically, at one and the same time, a reminder of God's distance. (For example, notice how the Shekinah, perhaps the supreme token of God's presence with Israel, also demonstrated that God dwelt in both 'unapproachable light' and 'deep darkness.') The coming of Jesus abolishes this distance, and so, in another of God's great paradoxes, the Messiah's fulfillment of the law means that OT religion is superceded.

- Peter Bolt, The Cross from a Distance: Atonement in Mark's Gospel, pg. 29.