Introduction to Messianic Judaism
Introduction to Messianic Judaism

Author: Zondervan,

Publisher: Zondervan Academic

Published: 2013-02-05

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0310555663

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This book is the go-to source for introductory information on Messianic Judaism. Editors David Rudolph and Joel Willitts have assembled a thorough examination of the ecclesial context and biblical foundations of the diverse Messianic Jewish movement. Unique among similar works in its Jew-Gentile partnership, this book brings together a team of respected Messianic Jewish and Gentile Christian scholars, including Mark Kinzer, Richard Bauckham, Markus Bockmuehl, Craig Keener, Darrell Bock, Scott Hafemann, Daniel Harrington, R. Kendall Soulen, Douglas Harink and others. Opening essays, written by Messianic Jewish scholars and synagogue leaders, provide a window into the on-the-ground reality of the Messianic Jewish community and reveal the challenges, questions and issues with which Messianic Jews grapple. The following predominantly Gentile Christian discussion explores a number of biblical and theological issues that inform our understanding of the Messianic Jewish ecclesial context. Here is a balanced and accessible introduction to the diverse Messianic Jewish movement that both Gentile Christian and Messianic Jewish readers will find informative and fascinating.

Introduction to Messianic Judaism
Introduction to Messianic Judaism

Author: Joel Willitts

Publisher: Zondervan Academic

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780310330639

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In this comprehensive introduction to Messianic Judaism, David Rudolph and Joel Willitts present a collection of articles by both Messianic Jews and Gentile Christians. Introduction to Messianic Judaism offers a thorough examination of the ecclesial context and biblical foundations of the Messianic Jewish movement.

Postmissionary Messianic Judaism
Postmissionary Messianic Judaism

Author: Mark S. Kinzer

Publisher: Baker Books

Published: 2005-11-01

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1441239103

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In recent years, a new form of Messianic Judaism has emerged that has the potential to serve as a bridge between Jews and Christians. Giving voice to this movement, Mark Kinzer makes a case for nonsupersessionist Christianity. He argues that the election of Israel is irrevocable, that Messianic Jews should honor the covenantal obligations of Israel, and that rabbinic Judaism should be viewed as a movement employed by God to preserve the distinctive calling of the Jewish people. Though this book will be of interest to Jewish readers, it is written primarily for Christians who recognize the need for a constructive relationship to the Jewish people that neither denies the role of Jesus the Messiah nor diminishes the importance of God's covenant with the Jews.

Mapping Messianic Jewish Theology
Mapping Messianic Jewish Theology

Author: Richard Harvey

Publisher: Paternoster Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13:

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Richard Harvey, himself a Messianic Jew, maps the diverse theological terrain of this young movement. He makes an original and innovative contribution by clarifying, affirming and constructively critiquing the present state of its theology. The book examines five topics of theological concern: 1. God's nature, activity and attributes (can the one God of Israel and the Christian Trinity be the same?) 2. The Messiah (Messianic Jewish Christologies) 3. Torah in theory (the meaning and interpretation of the Torah in the light of Jesus) 4. Torah in practice (Messianic practice of Sabbath, food laws and Passover) 5. Eschatology (the diverse models employed within the movement to describe the future of Israel). Within each topic Harvey explores the range of Messianic Jewish views and their roots in both Jewish and Christian theological traditions. The author proposes a typology of eight theological tendencies within Messianic Judaism and identifies issues where further theological development is required.

Messianic Judaism
Messianic Judaism

Author: David H. Stern

Publisher: Lederer Books

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 9781880226339

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"A revision of Messianic Jewish manifesto."

Jewish Concepts of Scripture
Jewish Concepts of Scripture

Author: Benjamin D Sommer

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2012-10-29

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 0814724604

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What do Jews think scripture is? How do the People of the Book conceive of the Book of Books? In what ways is it authoritative? Who has the right to interpret it? Is it divinely or humanly written? And have Jews always thought about the Bible in the same way? In seventeen cohesive and rigorously researched essays, this volume traces the way some of the most important Jewish thinkers throughout history have addressed these questions from the rabbinic era through the medieval Islamic world to modern Jewish scholarship. They address why different Jewish thinkers, writers, and communities have turned to the Bible—and what they expect to get from it. Ultimately, argues editor Benjamin D. Sommer, in understanding the ways Jews construct scripture, we begin to understand the ways Jews construct themselves.

Rethinking the Messianic Idea in Judaism
Rethinking the Messianic Idea in Judaism

Author: Michael L. Morgan

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2014-11-28

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 0253014778

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Over the centuries, the messianic tradition has provided the language through which modern Jewish philosophers, socialists, and Zionists envisioned a utopian future. Michael L. Morgan, Steven Weitzman, and an international group of leading scholars ask new questions and provide new ways of thinking about this enduring Jewish idea. Using the writings of Gershom Scholem, which ranged over the history of messianic belief and its conflicted role in the Jewish imagination, these essays put aside the boundaries that divide history from philosophy and religion to offer new perspectives on the role and relevance of messianism today.

Return of the Remnant
Return of the Remnant

Author: Michael Schiffman

Publisher: Lederer Messianic Publications

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 9781880226537

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Messianic Judaism is a modern movement with an ancient past. Its resurgence today may hold the key to world redemption. Dr. Michael Schiffman documents the roots of the modern Messianic Jewish movement and explains how Messianic Jews are uniquely positioned by God in their relationship to both the church and the Jewish community to be a bridge of understanding in our day.

Voices of Messianic Judaism
Voices of Messianic Judaism

Author: Dan Cohn-Sherbok

Publisher: Messianic Jewish Publisher

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9781880226933

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Some of the best minds of the Messianic Jewish movement contribute their thoughts to this collection of twenty-nine substantive articles that focus on theological and practical issues -- intermarriage, the role of non-Jews. Israel, Jewish evangelism, and much more.

An Introduction to Second Temple Judaism
An Introduction to Second Temple Judaism

Author: Lester L. Grabbe

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2010-06-10

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 0567296660

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An internationally respected expert on the Second Temple period provides a fully up-to-date introduction to this crucial area of Biblical Studies. This introduction, by a world leader in the field, provides the perfect guide to the Second Temple Period, its history, literature, and religious setting. Lester Grabbe magisterially guides the reader through the period providing a careful overview of the most studied sources, the history surrounding them and the various currents within Judaism at the time. This book will be a core text for courses on the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, as well as Qumran, Intertestamental Literature and Early Judaism.