David Stern has lived a very interesting life. Born in Los Angeles, great-grandson of two of the city's first twenty Jews, he earned a his PhD in Economics at Princeton, taught at UCLA, his Alma Mater, came to believe in Yeshua in 1972, earned a Degree at Fuller Seminary where he taught their first course on Judaism and Christianity, married in 1976 and made Aliyah (emigrated to Israel in 1979). In his younger years he...
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I've followed David Stern for some time and read much that has come out of the Messianic Jewish movement. I've also read many books by traditional Jews about Jesus and/or Christianity (Geza Vermes, for instance). 50 years ago, Jews didn't dare write about Jesus. Now, many traditional Jews are trying to reclaim Yeshua (Jesus) as part of the Jewish rabbinic tradition, and rightly so. How times change. It saddens me that...
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I discovered Messianic Jews within weeks of discovering Jesus. I have straddled both the church and (messianic) synagogue ever since. This book helped clear up much of the history I was missing and seemed to lay out the entire discussion in a great way. I highly recommend it for "Christians" to learn about how we ended up in 2002 with the kind of church culture we have.
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I am Irish and Native American Annishinabe and am concluding this book in record time. Thought provoking, inspirational, and needed to begin the mending processess of twisted time.It is great to see a prespective from those treated as invisible "the Messianic Jew."As a person coming from the same time of background (a people who was almost destroyed by the "Christians" it brought me back to a time of my mind wherein it...
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