Restoring the Jewishness of the Gospel

by Stern, David H.

• ISBN13: 9781880226667
• ISBN10: 1880226669
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-08-19
• Publisher: Jewish New Testament Pubns

Summary

A book the whole Church needs to read!

Author Biography

David H. Stern, born in Los Angeles in 1935, is the great-grandson of two of the city's first twenty Jews. He earned a Ph.D. in economics at Princeton University and was a professor at UCLA. In 1972 he came to faith in Yeshua the Messiah. He then received a Master of Divinity degree at Fuller Theological Seminary, did graduate work at the University of Judaism, and was active in the Messianic Jewish movement. Dr. Stern authored Messianic Judaism from which Restoring the Jewishness of the Gospel is excerpted. His highly acclaimed English translation the Jewish New Testament, restores the New Testament's Jewishness. His Jewish New Testament Commentary discusses the many Jewish issues found in the New Testament. His fresh translation, the Complete Jewish Bible expresses the unity of the Tanahk (Old Testament) and the B'rit Hadashah (New Testament). This outstanding scholarly work offers Bible readers a thorough, biblically Jewish version of God's word.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
Contextualization Versus Restoration	p. 1
Christianity and Culture	p. 1
Transcultural Judaism	p. 1
Non-Transcultural Christianity	p. 2
"Now That You're Christian, Have A Ham Sandwich!"	p. 3
Contextualizing The Gospel	p. 5
Contextualizing The Gospel For Jews	p. 5
Type I, Type II and Type III Evangelism	p. 6
Where Do the Jews Fit In?	p. 7
Not Contextualization But Type IV Evangelism	p. 8
Restoring the Jewishness of the Gospel	p. 11
Definition	p. 11
The Church and Israel In Theology and History	p. 12
Three Theologies: Covenant, Dispensational and "Olive Tree"	p. 12
The Church and Israel in History: Early Period	p. 14
Olive Tree Theology	p. 20
The Church and Israel in History: Modern Period	p. 22
The Gospel Is Corporate As Well As Individual	p. 24
Yeshua Is Identified With The People Of Israel	p. 27
God Will Fulfill His Promises To The Jewish People	p. 30
The New Testament Proves It	p. 30
The Old Testament Proves It	p. 32
Refutation of Arguments that God is Finished with the Jews	p. 32
2 Corinthians 1:20	p. 33
Matthew 5:17	p. 33
The Promise of The Land	p. 34
The Promise of The Kingdom	p. 38
Conclusion	p. 39
The Role of Torah in the Gospel	p. 39
Torah Incognita	p. 39
Nomos	p. 41
Romans 10:4-Did The Messiah End The Law?	p. 41
"Under The Law" and "Works of The Law"	p. 42
Galatians 3:10-13-Redeemed From The Curse of The Law?	p. 44
Hebrews 8:6-The New Covenant Has Been Given As Torah	p. 45
The Gospel with an Ended Law is No Gospel at All	p. 47
New Covenant Laws and Practices	p. 49
John 7:22-23	p. 50
Galatians 2:11-14	p. 50
Mark 7:1-20	p. 51
Acts 10:9-17, 28	p. 52
Acts 15 And the Torah	p. 53
New Covenant Law?	p. 54
Presuppositions to Restoring the Jewishness of the Gospel	p. 57
Christianity Is Jewish	p. 57
Antisemitism Is Un-Christian	p. 59
Refusing or Neglecting to Evangelize Jews is Antisemitic	p. 61
Benign Neglect of the Jews is Antisemitic	p. 61
Purposeful Neglect, Justified by History, is Antisemitic	p. 62
Purposeful Neglect, Justified by Theology, is Antisemitic	p. 64
Romans 1:16-The Gospel is "For the Jew Especially"	p. 67
Blessings	p. 69
How Will The Church Be Blessed?	p. 69
How Will The Jews Be Blessed?	p. 70
Appendix: The Church's Biggest Challenge	p. 73
Glossary of Hebrew Words and Names	p. 81
Index of Scripture and Early Literature	p. 87
General Index	p. 91
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