Download Strongly Recommended Reading for Jewish Evangelism

Strongly Recommended Reading for Jewish Evangelism
The following texts and articles are composed by both Christian and
Jewish scholars, both believers and unbelievers in an attempt to
expose the Jewish soul-winner to ideas, prejudices, and lines of
witness that will be invaluable to your presentation of the Gospel in
the Power of the Spirit.
Allen, Roland. The Ministry of the Spirit. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdman’s, 1960.
Anderson, Gerald H., and Stransky, Thomas F., eds. Christ’s Lordship and Religious
Pluralism. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1983.
Ariel, Yaakov. Evangelizing the Chosen People. Missions to the Jews in America, 18892000. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
Aron, Isa, et al. Sacred Strategies: Transforming Synagogues from Functional to
Visionary. Herndon: The Alban Institute, 2010. (Paperback $20; Kindle $9.99)
(251p).
Bauckham, Richard. Jesus and the God of Israel. Grand Rapids: Wm B. Eerdmans,
2008.
Bavinck, J. H. An Introduction to the Science of Missions. Translated from the Dutch by
David H. Freeman. Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing
Company, 1960.
Beale, G. K., and D. A. Carson, eds., Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old
Testament. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2007.
Ben Sasson, H. H., ed. A History of the Jewish People. Cambridge: Harvard University
Press, 1976.
Berkovits, Eliezer. Major Themes in Modern Philosophies of Judaism. New York:
KTAV, 1974.
Biale, David, ed. Cultures of the Jews. Vol. 3. Modern Encounters. New York: Schocken
Books, 2000. ($15.56) You might already have the common bound 3 volume set.
(Three chapters of student choice).
Blaising, Craig A. and Darrell L. Bock, eds. Dispensationalism, Israel and the Church:
The Search for Definition. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing Company, 1992.
Bock, Darrell L., and Glaser, Mitch, eds. To the Jew First: The Case for Jewish
Evangelism in Scripture and History. Grand Rapids: Kregel Publications, 2008.
Bokser, Ben Zion. The Jewish Mystical Tradition. New York: The Pilgrim Press, 1981.
Bonk, Jonathan. Missions and Money: Affluence as a Missionary Problem. Maryknoll:
Orbis Books, 2006. (Paperback $19.71) (all 129p).
Bosch, David J. Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission.
Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1993.
Brook, Vincent, ed. You Should See Yourself: Jewish Identity in Postmodern American
Culture. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2006. (Paperback $24.95;
Kindle $9.99) (151p) (pp. 1-115; 277-313).
Brown, Erica. Inspired Jewish Leadership: Practical Approaches to Building Strong
Communities. Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights Publishing, 2009. Paperback
$17.49; Kindle $15.39) (all 201p).
Brown, Michael L. Answering Jewish Objections to Jesus. Vols 1-5. Grand Rapids:
Baker Books, 2000-2010.
Brown, Michael L. What Do Jewish People Think about Jesus? Grand Rapids: Chosen
Books, 2007.
Brown, Michael L. Our Hands Are Stained With Blood: The Tragic Story of the
“Church”and the Jewish People. Shippensburg, PA: Destiny Images Publishers,
1990.
Carmichael, Joel. The Satanizing of the Jews: Origen and Development of Mystical
Anti-Semitism. New York: Fromm International Publishing, 1992.
Cox, Harvey. Fire from Heaven: The Rise of Pentecostal Spirituality and the Reshaping
of Religion in the Twenty-first Century. New York: Addison-Wesley Publishing
Company, 1995.
Davies, W. D. Christian Engagements with Judaism. Harrisburg: Trinity Press
International, 1999.
Dawidowicz, Lucy S. On Equal terms: Jews in America 1881-1981. New York, NY:
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1982.
Delitzsch, Franz, Messianic Prophecies in Historic Succession. Reprint, Eugene, OR:
Wipf & Stock, 1997.
Dershowitz, Alan M. The Vanishing American Jew. New York: Touchstone, Simon &
Schuster, 1997.
Donin, Hayim Halevy. To Pray as a Jew: A Guide to the Prayer Book and the
Synagogue Service. New York: Basic Books, 1980.
Donin, Hayim Halevy. To Be a Jew: A Guide to Jewish Observance in Contemporary
Life. New York: Basic Books, 1972.
Dorff, Elliot N. and Newman, Louis E., eds. Contemporary Jewish Theology. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Eichhorn, David. Evangelizing the American Jew. New York: Jonathan David, 1978.
Eisenberg, Gary D. Smashing the Idols: A Jewish Inquiry into the Cult Phenomenon.
Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1988.
Eisenman, Robert. The Dead Sea Scrolls and the First Christians. Edison, NJ: Castle
Books, 2004.
Elgvin, Torleif. Israel and Yeshua. Jerusalem: Caspari Center for Biblical and Jewish
Studies, 1993.
Endelman, Todd M., ed. Jewish Apostasy in the Modern World. New York: Holmes
and Meier, 1987.
Falk, Gerhard. American Judaism in Transition: The Secularization of a Religious
Community. New York, NY: University Press of America, 1995.
Fisher, Eugene J., ed. Interwoven Destinies; Jews and Christians Through the Ages.
New York, NY: Paulist Press, 1993.
Flusser, David. Judaism and the Origins of Christianity. Jerusalem: The Magnus
Press, the Hebrew University, 1988.
Flusser, David. Jesus. Jerusalem, Israel: Magnus Press, the Hebrew University, 1998.
Gannon, Raymond L. The Shifting Romance With Israel: American Pentecostal
Ideology of Zionism and the Jewish State. Shippensburg: Destiny Image, 2011.
Gibbs, Eddie. ChurchNext: Quantum Changes in How We Do Ministry. Downers
Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2000. (Paperback $13.23; Kindle $9.99) (all 230p).
Gilliland, Dean S. Pauline Theology and Mission Practice. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker
Book House, 1983.
Gilman, Sander L. Jewish Self-hatred: Anti-Semitism and the Hidden Language of the
Jews. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986.
Glaser, Mitch “A Survey of Missions to the Jews in Continental Europe 1900-1950.”
Ph.D. diss., Fuller School of World Mission and Institute of Church Growth,
Fuller Theological Seminary, 1998.
Goldberg, Michael. Why Should Jews Survive? Looking Past the Holocaust Toward a
Jewish Future. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Goldscheider, Calvin, and Zuckerman, Alan S. The Transformation of the Jews.
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1984.
Gruber, Daniel. The Church and the Jews: The Biblical Relationship. Springfield,
Missouri: General Council of the Assemblies of God, Intercultural Ministries,
1991.
Holwerda, David E. Jesus and Israel: One Covenant or Two? Grand Rapid, MI:
William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1995.
Horner, Barry E. Future Israel: Why Christian Anti-Judaism Must Be Challenged.
Nashville: Academic, n.d.
Jenkins, Philip. The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2002.
Jenkinson, William, and O’Sullivan, Helene, eds. Trends in Mission: Toward the Third
Millennium. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1993.
Jospe, Raphael, and Stanley M. Wagner, eds. Great Schisms in Jewish History. New
York: KTAV, 1981.
Kee, Howard Clark, and Irvin J. Borowsky, eds. Removing Anti-Judaism from the Pulpit.
Philadelphia: American Interfaith Institute, 1996.
Keener, Craig. S. The Historical Jesus of the Gospels. Grand Rapids: Wm. B.
Eerdmans Publishing, 2009.
Kinzer, Mark S. Post-Missionary Messianic Judaism: Redefining Christian Engagement
with the Jewish People. Grand Rapids: BrazosPress, 2005.
Kjaer-Hansen, Kai and Skjott, Bodil F. Facts and Myths About the Messianic
Congregations in Israel. Jerusalem: United Christian Council in Israel, 1999.
Klinghoffer, David. Why The Jews Rejected Jesus. New York: Random House, 2005.
Lapide, Pinchas. The Resurrection of Jesus, a Jewish Perspective. Minneapolis.
Augsburg, 1983.
Levine, Samuel. You Take Jesus, I’ll Take God: How to Refute Christian Missionaries.
Los Angeles: Hamorah Press, 1980.
Low, Alfred D. Jews in the Eyes of the Germans: From the Enlightenment to Imperial
Germany. Philadelphia, PA: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1979.
Luedmann, Gerd. Opposition to Paul in Jewish Christianity. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1989.
Nanos, Mark D. The Irony of Galatians: Paul’s Letter in First-Century Context.
Minneapolis: Fortress, 2002.
Nanos, Mark D. The Mystery of Romans: The Jewish Context of Paul’s Letter.
Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1995. 387 pages. Note: Mark Nanos is an
unbelieving Jewish scholar.
Norman, Asher. Twenty-Six Reasons Why Jews Don’t Believe in Jesus. Los Angeles:
Black White and Read Publishing Company, 2007.
Parkes, James. The Conflict of the Church and the Synagogue. New York, NY:
Atheneum, 1981.
Patai, Raphael. The Jewish Mind. New York: Jason Aronson, 1977.
Patai, Raphael. The Messiah Texts: Jewish Legends of Three Thousand Years. Detroit:
Wayne State University Press, 1979.
Pocock, Michael and Van Rheenan, Gailyn. The Changing Face of World
Missions: Engaging Contemporary Issues and Trends (Encountering
Mission). Grand Rapids: Baker Publishing Group, 2005. ($15.95; Kindle
$14.96) (172p) (pp. 79-128; 183-278; 321-348).
Rosen, Jeremy. Exploding Myths That Jews Believe. Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson Inc.,
2000.
Rosen, Moishe and Ceil. Witnessing to Jews: Practical Ways to Relate the Love of
Jesus. San Francisco, CA: Purple Pomegranate Productions, 1998.
Rubinstein, Richard. After Auschwitz, Radical Theology and Contemporary Judaism.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merril, 1966.
Senior, Donald, and Stuhlmueller, Carroll. The Biblical Foundations for Mission.
Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1983.
Sider, Ronald. Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger. Nashville: Thomas Nelson,
2005. ($20.50; Kindle $8.99) (75p) (pp. 39-85; 151-178).
Sigal, Gerald. The Jew and the Christian Missionary: A Jewish Response to Missionary
Christianity. New York, NY: Ktav Publishing House, 1981.
Skarsvaune, Oskar. In the Shadow of the Temple: Jewish Influences on Early
Christianity. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2002.
Skarsvaune, Oskar, and Hvalvik, Reidar, eds. Jewish Believers in Jesus: The Early
Centuries. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2007.
Soulen, R. Kendall. The God of Israel and Christian Theology. Minneapolis: Fortress
Press, 1996.
Stetzer, Ed. Planting New Churches in a Postmodern Age. Nashville: Broadman and
Holman Publishers, 2003. (Paperback $6.98; Kindle $15.39) (155p) (pp. 103238; 317-336).
Swidler, Leonard. Bursting the Bonds? A Jewish-Christian Dialogue of Jesus and Paul.
Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1990.
Telchin, Stanley. Abandoned: What is God’s Will for the Jewish People and the
Church? Grand Rapids: Chosen Books, 1997.
Tippet, Alan. Introduction to Missiology. Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, 1987.
(Paperback $29.99) (144p) (pp. 104-130; 144-202; 222-232; 252-263; 360-391).
Tomson, Peter J., If This Be from Heaven...: Jesus and the New Testament Authors in
Their Relationship to Judaism. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001.
Turner, Max. Power from on High: The Spirit in Israel’s Restoration and Witness in
Luke-Acts. Journal of Pentecostal Theology Supplement Series 9. Sheffield:
Sheffield Academic Press, 1996.
Van Engen, Charles, Gilliland, Dean S., and Pierson, Paul, eds. The Good News of the
Kingdom: Mission Theology for the Third Millennium. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis
Books, 1993.
Wasserman, Jeffrey S. Messianic Jewish Congregations: Who Sold this Business to the
Gentiles? Lanham: University Press of America, 2000.
York, John V. Missions in the Age of the Spirit. Springfield, MO: Logion Press, 2001.