Useful books / journals and web-sites that relate to the Messianic Movement

Christianmedic said:

Hi I have been looking for facebook pages and groups that believe the whole bible is true, I found just a few but no groups, I finally started my own facebook group called The Whole Word of God, but I only have like 6 members i invited from my friends list but none of them are messianic jews so they just browse a bit but don't participate, i really like the facebook format so i was wondering if anyone knew of any good ones on there, i have posts from the ones i already found in my group, you can view there without joining, i'm hoping people here know some, thanks for your time, this is my first forum too so i will look through all these posts and see what you guys suggest, thanks again

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Shalom

If I may offer,

Have you ever considered the organization known as ONE FOR ISRAEL? They're an excellent organization in regards to Messianic Jews (as well as believers from differing ethnicities) coming together to celebrate Yeshua as the Messiah. I think it would bless you tremendously

If anyone is interested please see my book, "unlocking the messianic prophecies":
The Book, Unlocking the Messianic Prophecies

There is also a Hebrew translation available:
The Book, Unlocking the Messianic Prophecies (Hebrew Language Translation)

For anyone interested,


Here's an interesting perspective from a non-believing Jewish scholar I came across from one of my Jewish friends and it was really on point - by Dr. Benjamin D. Sommer..

• Jewish Professor speaks about the Incarnation of Jesus: Is it really a non Jewish concept? | ???? ??????? ???????

“When the New Testament talks about Jesus as being some sort of small scale human manifestation of God, it sounds to Jews so utterly pagan, but what I’m suggesting is perhaps the radical idea for us Jews that in fact, it’s not so pagan. That in fact, there was a monotheistic version of this that existed already in the Tanakh. And that the Christian idea, that Jesus, or ‘The Logos’, The Word, as the Gospel of John describes it in it’s opening verses, that the presence of The Word or Jesus in fleshly form – in a human body on the planet earth – is actually God making God self accessible to humanity in a kind of avatar. This is what we were seeing in the ‘J’ and ‘E’ texts [differing Hebrew manuscripts]. This is much less radical than it sounds. Or when the Gospel of John describes God’s Self as coming down and overlapping with Jesus – which is a famous passage early in the Gospel of John – that is actually a fairly old ancient near eastern idea of the reality, or self, of one deity overlapping with some other being. So, this is not just Greek paganism sort of just smoothed on to a Jewish mold, which is a way that a lot of Jews tend to view Christianity. This is actually an old ancient near eastern idea, that is an old semitic idea, that is popping up again among those Jews who were the founders of Christianity. We Jews have always tended to sort of make fun of the trinity. ‘Oh how can there be three that is one? If they’ve got this three part God, even if they call it a triune God, a God that is three yet one, really, really, they are pagans. They are not really monotheists like we Jews are or like the Muslims are. Those Christians are really pagan.’ But I think what we are seeing in the idea of the trinity that there is this one God who manifests Itself in three different ways, that’s actually an old ancient near eastern idea that could function in a polytheistic context as it did for the Babylonians and Canaanites, but it can also function in a monotheistic context as it does I think in the ‘J’ and ‘E’ texts. "​

• Review: The Bodies of God by Benjamin Sommer | Charles Halton

• https://biblicalstudiesonline.wordpress.com/2014/03/12/benjamin-d-sommer-on-gods-body/

The excerpt is from Dr. Sommer's second book entitled The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel

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mishkan said:

Shalom!

I can recommend two FB discussion groups for you. I own one, called "Mishkan David". We have a couple hundred members. The focus there is on building unity within the Messianic body. I am also an admin for "Messianics". With 4400 members, the rules are a little tighter there, but the discussions are great!

You will see me on those groups with my actual name, David Negley.

Shalom, shalom!

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facebook is wonderful. i have requested to join both groups.


Steve

cyberlizard said:

facebook is wonderful. i have requested to join both groups.


Steve

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Groups on FB such as One For Israel Ministry are also excellent ministries...

Gxg (G²) said:

Groups on FB such as One For Israel Ministry are also excellent ministries...

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Steve

Bibliography (continued - 2015)

Books

Artscroll Tanach: The Twelve Prophets; The Priestly Blessings; Jonah; Ruth
(Brooklyn NY: Mesorah – various dates)


Ackroyd, P. Israel Under Babylon and Persia
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1970)


Dunn, James D.G. The New Perspective on Paul Revised Edition
(Grand Rapids MI: Eerdmans, 2008)


Dunn, James D.G. Paul and The Mosaic Law
(Grand Rapids MI: Eerdmans, 1995)


Edersheim, A. The Temple – Its Ministry and Services Updated Edition
(Peabody MA: Hendrickson, 1998)


Eisenbaum, P.A. Paul was not a Christian – the original message…
(New York NY: Harper Collins, 2009)


Grudem, W. Evangelical Feminism – a New Path to Liberalism?
(Wheaton IL: Crossway Books, 2006)


Kessler, E. and A Dictionary of Jewish-Christian Relations
Wenborn, N. (Eds) (Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008)


Kriwaczek, P. Yiddish Civilisation – The Rise and Fall of a forgotten Nation
(London: Phoenix Paperbacks Orion Books, 2006)


Kroeger, RC and CC. I Suffer not a Woman – Rethinking 1 Timothy 2:11-15
(Grand Rapids MI: Baker Books, 1993)


Kornbluth, D. Cremation or Burial
(Israel: Mosaica Press, 2012)


Lamm, M. The Jewish Way in Death and Mourning Revised Edition
(New York NY: Jonathan David Publishers, 2000)


Sandmel, P. The Genius of Paul
(Philadelphia PA: Fortress Press, 1979)


Sanders, E.P. Paul, the Law, and the Jewish People
(Minneapolis MN: Fortress Press, 1985)


Staniforth, M. The Apostolic Fathers – Early Christian Writings
(London: Penguin Books, 1987)


Vermes, G. The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English
(London: Penguin Books, 1998)


Vermes, G. Christian Beginnings from Nazareth to Nicaea AD 30 – 325
(London: Penguin Books, 2013)


Yonge, C.D. (TR) The Works of Philo Updated Version
(Peabody MA: Hendrickson, 2011)

I have realised that I may have duplicated a couple of entries from my earlier lists - my apologies.

More books from my study bookshelves will be appearing soon in a new post.

Bibliography 2015 Part 2

(I have included a number of older books that are still worth reading; some have been reprinted as later editions)

Books

Cohen, N. My Road Home
(Trowbridge: Eagle Publishing, 2002)


De Vaux, R. Ancient Israel – Its Life and Institutions
(London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1965) [Worth getting a copy if you can]


Dunn-Wilson, D. A Mirror for the Church – Preaching in the first five centuries
(Grand Rapids MI: Eerdmans Publishing, 2005)


Edersheim, A. The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah
(London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1901) [available in a modern version]


Fieldsend, J. Messianic Jews – Challenging Church and Synagogue
(Kent: Monarch Publications, 1993)


Goodman, M.(Ed) The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005)


Greenberg, J. Messianic Shabbat Siddur
Miami FL: Messianic Revival Ministries, 1996)


Hendrickson, W. Israel in Prophecy
(London: Wakeman Trust, 2008)


Josephus Thrones of Blood – a History of the Times of Jesus – 37BC to 70AD [Paperback showing how Herod got where he was when Jesus came into the world]
(Uhrichsville OH: Barbour and Co., 1988)


Jews for Jesus Avodat Yeshua – Worship to Yeshua [Hymn book]
San Fransisco CA: Purple Pomegranate Productions, 1991)


Jeffrey, G.R. Messiah – War in the Middle East and the Road to Armageddon
(Toronto Ontario: Frontier Research Publications, 1991)


Jeffrey, G.R. Heaven - The Last frontier
(Toronto Ontario: Frontier Research Publications, 1990)


Kasdan, B. God’s appointed Customs – a Messianic Jewish Guide to Biblical Lifestyle
(Baltimore MD: Messianic Jewish Publishers, 1996)


Kessler, E. An Introduction to Jewish-Christian Relations
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010)


Lockyer, H. All the Messianic Prophecies of the Bible
(Grand Rapids MI: Zondervan, 1973)


Metcalfe, J. The Messiah – the Apostolic Foundation of the Christian Church
(Buckinghamshire: The Publishing Trust, 1994)


Moroney, E. Religious Syncretism [Between Christianity, Judaism & Islam]
London: SCM Press, 2006)


Rosen, R. Jews for Jesus – the Story
(San Francisco CA: A Messianic Jewish Perspective, 1987)


Sevener, H.A. Israel’s Glorious Future – The Prophecies & Promises of God Revealed
(Charlotte NC: Chosen People Ministries, 1996)


Shire, M. (Tr) L’chaim! Prayers and Blessings for the home
(London: Frances Lincoln, 2000)


Scherman, N Artscroll Transliterated Linear Siddur – Sabbath and Festival (Seif Edition)
& Zlotowitz, M (Brooklyn NY: Mesorah Publications, 1998)
(Eds)


Soulen, R.K. The God of Israel and Christian Theology
(Minneapolis MN: Augsburg Press, 1996)


Telchin, S. Betrayed
(London: Marshall Pickering, 1982)


Telchin, S. Abandoned – what is God’s will for the Jewish People and the Church?
(London: Marshall Pickering, 1997)


Wenzerful, R. Tracing your Jewish Ancestors – a Guide for Family Historians
(Yorkshire: Penn and Sword Books, 2008)


Zimmerman, M. Celebrate the Feasts of the Old Testament in your own home / church
(Minneapolis MN: Bethany Fellowship, 1981)



Most of the rest of my books (apart from those already listed in the first few posts of this thread) relate to the Christian church: theology, history, mission, evangelicalism, sociology of religion, cults and sects (JWs, Mormons, etc etc), the occult, and so on, and are therefore not suitable for MJ fora.

Hertz, J.H. (Ed) Pentateuch and Haftorahs - Hebrew Text English Translation & Commentary
(Brooklyn, NY: Soncino Press, 2001) Second Edition

Thoroughly recommend this book, in particular the commentary given throughout, and the Additional Notes after each of the five books. The Haftorahs for Special Sabbaths, Festivals and Fast-days are provided at the back of the book, with commentary and notes, as well. Older versions are available and some with a different editor - but this 2nd Edition from 2001 by Dr.J.H.Hertz is the better version by far. Price is about £25.

Gxg (G²) said:

For anyone interested,


Here's an interesting perspective from a non-believing Jewish scholar I came across from one of my Jewish friends and it was really on point - by Dr. Benjamin D. Sommer..

• Jewish Professor speaks about the Incarnation of Jesus: Is it really a non Jewish concept? | ???? ??????? ???????

“When the New Testament talks about Jesus as being some sort of small scale human manifestation of God, it sounds to Jews so utterly pagan, but what I’m suggesting is perhaps the radical idea for us Jews that in fact, it’s not so pagan. That in fact, there was a monotheistic version of this that existed already in the Tanakh. And that the Christian idea, that Jesus, or ‘The Logos’, The Word, as the Gospel of John describes it in it’s opening verses, that the presence of The Word or Jesus in fleshly form – in a human body on the planet earth – is actually God making God self accessible to humanity in a kind of avatar. This is what we were seeing in the ‘J’ and ‘E’ texts [differing Hebrew manuscripts]. This is much less radical than it sounds. Or when the Gospel of John describes God’s Self as coming down and overlapping with Jesus – which is a famous passage early in the Gospel of John – that is actually a fairly old ancient near eastern idea of the reality, or self, of one deity overlapping with some other being. So, this is not just Greek paganism sort of just smoothed on to a Jewish mold, which is a way that a lot of Jews tend to view Christianity. This is actually an old ancient near eastern idea, that is an old semitic idea, that is popping up again among those Jews who were the founders of Christianity. We Jews have always tended to sort of make fun of the trinity. ‘Oh how can there be three that is one? If they’ve got this three part God, even if they call it a triune God, a God that is three yet one, really, really, they are pagans. They are not really monotheists like we Jews are or like the Muslims are. Those Christians are really pagan.’ But I think what we are seeing in the idea of the trinity that there is this one God who manifests Itself in three different ways, that’s actually an old ancient near eastern idea that could function in a polytheistic context as it did for the Babylonians and Canaanites, but it can also function in a monotheistic context as it does I think in the ‘J’ and ‘E’ texts. "​

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• Review: The Bodies of God by Benjamin Sommer | Charles Halton

• https://biblicalstudiesonline.wordpress.com/2014/03/12/benjamin-d-sommer-on-gods-body/

The excerpt is from Dr. Sommer's second book entitled The Bodies of God and the World of Ancient Israel
https://books.google.com/books?id=3...AA#v=onepage&q=Dr. Benjamin D. Sommer&f=false

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Thanks for posting this, an interesting read no doubt!

I have just bought:

Wolgelernter, C. Y. The Unfinished Diary - a Chronicle of Tears [The gripping, unfinished Holocaust writings of Rabbi Chaim Yitzchok Wolgenlernter]
(Lakewood NJ: Israel Bookshop Publications, 2015)

This book, which has just appeared in some shops in the UK, has received excellent reviews in the UK tv and press on how the diary come to light and how it was translated from rough, handwritten notes, written in Yiddish 70 years ago, and then printed for us to read, today - now to read it!

In the UK the hard-back book cost £22 from my local Jewish Book Shop

Kriwaczek, P. Yiddish Civilisation – The Rise and Fall of a forgotten Nation
(London: Phoenix Paperbacks Orion Books, 2006)

If you want to learn about Jews living in Europe from Rome to the 20th century, the above, shown in my book list, is an excellent read. The writer concentrates on the historical facts down the years (for example: did you know that it was the English who first came up with the Blood libel against Jews - this is NOT for debate in this thread!). Although it is a history book it is a comfortable read from which many would benefit.

£11.00 in the UK - 311pp Paperback (I have just finished reading it)

The Journal of Messianic Jewish Studies - a new resource


http://www.journalofmessianicjewishstudies.com/

For those interested in learning about archeological findings in The Land:


http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/

Here's another free journal...

Melilah (Manchester (university) of Jewish Studies)).

http://www.melilahjournal.org

For a FREE electronic Bible program, with lots of versions to compare / search / study across (you make the choice of which versions you want to use, and whether you want Hebrew, English or Greek, with or without Strongs numbers etc) and various other useful materials. Go to www.e-sword.com and you will see that it is entirely free and really simple to set up and use. Different versions etc can be added as you wish, after you have downloaded the basic bit of software which is also free. I've been using this for years with no problems. This is now available for iphones/pads, and Macs, as well as PCs and lap-tops. I'm not aware of an Android app for it at the moment.

A little less free (well, actually you have to pay quite a lot for many of things that e-sword would give you for free), though there is some basic stuff that is free. Go to www.olivetree.com which is now owned by Harper Collins. This program can be best used across phones - Android and iPhone - and most tablets, too. Again, this is something I have used for years and, for a reasonable outlay, you can ensure you have a few versions of the Bible, and other materials, on your phone or tablet, for reading, searching or studying; it has a fairly comprehensive study facility, making it great for use on journeys or just making notes while in a Bible Study group.

Two very different aids, for two very different purposes! Enjoy one, or both!

I have no vested interest in either of the above - this recommendation is based entirely on my own, private use.

On This Day in Messianic Jewish History can be found on Facebook, on the internet, or you can receive their informative emails.

If you are into Messianic Jewish History, this group will keep you abreast of issues our forbears have faced and, where possible, will point you to more information about events. Be more informed in your posts in these fora!

https://messianicjewishhistory.wordpress.com/about/



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I haven't used this facility, and so this is no recommendation for it (there many more internet based courses available to begin learning Hebrew).

Maybe this might just inspire some to dig deeper in their understanding of the language of the larger part of the Scriptures by which we live and which we hold dear.


http://eteacherbiblical.com/hebrew-study

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Lulav said:

Thanks for posting this, an interesting read no doubt!

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I definitely think you'd be able to appreciate it