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- Our Father Abraham: Jewish roots of the Christian faith
by Marvin Wilson
I've said it a million times, but I'll say it one more..."Our Father Abraham: Jewish Roots of the Christian Faith" by Marvin Wilson is the best single volume on the Jewish roots of Christianity I have ever seen. Frankly, I can't even imagine how it could have been done better. It will change your Christian paradigm if you've never studied this before.
- New Light on the Difficult Words of Jesus: Insights from his Jewish Context
by David Bivin
What if we could step back into the first-century world of Jesus and walk, on a dusty road with him as one of his first Jewish disciples? What if we could listen to his teachings within the rabbinic conversations that surrounded him? In this book we examine Jesus' lifestyle as a first-century Jewish Rabbi and look at how his words would have been understood within the larger framework, of the first-century Judaism.
- Acts and the History of Earliest Christianity
by Martin Hengel
I just read Martin Hengel's "Acts and the History of EarliestChristianity". AWESOME!! It's only about 130 pages but it seems like I just took a course in reading ancient manuscripts. It's not a super hard read and it's short enough that you can re-read what you don't understand and not be in the book for like 6 months (re: N.T. Wright).
- The Sabbath
by Abraham Joshua Heschel
While Heschel is writing to a primarily jewish audience, this book is
a great tool in understanding not only the jewish mindset about the sabbath, but also the importance we as Christians should give this great day. In this book, Heschel describes the sabbath is not a thing is space that we can grasp, but rater in time that we come to meet each week. A bride beautifully prepared for us to come to each week. The anticipation of it's coming, invokes the same feelings as this bridge and so, we prepare ourselves to go meet her.