I’ve gotten some wonderful recommendations from my readers. Thank you and keep them coming! I have had a few books recommended to me that I wanted to ask about since I haven’t put my own hands on them. Have you read these books? What did you think?
Restoring Our Lost Legacy: Christianity’s Hebrew Heritage by John Garr
Christianity: New Religion or Sect of Biblical Judaism by Robert Koch
I’m also excited about a new study at BereansOnline on the book of Galatians. I enjoyed listening to the Intro Lesson so far. I’m also looking forward to starting the annual reading cycle in two weeks and starting over with the Torah and the Gospels. I’m hoping to add to our Torah Club Volume 4 the series on Matthew from BereansOnline as we get started in the new reading cycle and adding it to either our evening Bible reading schedule or to our school schedule. I’m planning on going through By Way of Sukkot this week too, as a refresher.
DH is starting my favorite book: The Letter Writer by Tim Hegg and I’m excited to get his feedback as he works through this book about Paul. 
On an interesting and somewhat related note, we watched Naked Archaeology today because Simcha (the “love to hate him”, frustrates you to much but has an interesting program anyway) was discussing what happened to the early believers of Jesus. He had some fairly lame ideas that he posited via “scholars” but for the most part it was good and he also had some very good points to make, hence the “love to hate him” opinion. (I think these two shows are on all week on the History channel) It sparked some good conversations here at home. Also, I woke up at 5 am and went for the concordance looking up “dogma” and trying to find the verse that says that “the law was nailed to the cross”. (Dogma – an opinion or that which seems true to a person; man made decrees.) Needless to say, I wasn’t very successful that early in the morning. I went back to bed.
I’d love to hear what studies you are doing, or hoping to start.
Tomorrow we will be setting up our sukkah and hopefully uncovering the garden that has been “cooking” under plastic all season to till the ground up and cover it again till spring. Being the shemittah year we did not have a garden this year, therefore no harvest, and I’m really looking forward to planting this coming spring. Shalom has been at an academy all weekend too so we’re all looking forward to going to his graduation tomorrow afternoon and bringing our tired, yet excited, boy home. It’s hard when someone is missing from the nest…
Lisa, I am looking at the Messianic Renewed Covenant by J.K. McKee at Ephesians 2:15 which reads, “By rendering inoperative the enmity, the religious law of commandments contained in dogma, that in Himself He might make the two into one revewed man making peace.”
The footnote for dogma says this, ” Many translations render this as “the Law of commandments in ordinances,” in reference to the Torah. But if this is the Torah being renedered inoperative or abolished, then it would contradict Yeshua’s words of Matthew 5:17-19 which tell us that the Torah and “commandments” that were unbiblical (see Yeshua’s discourse in Matthew 23), otherwise the Messiah was not telling us the truth in stating that the Torah and Prophets will stand until Heaven and Earth pass away, or Paul is a false apostle. But we cannot accept either. The Greek “dogma”, commonly translated as “ordinances”, also can mean, religious opinions or doctrines of men. This extra-Biblical religious Law has been rendered inoperative by Messiah.”
We listened to this intro last night on our way home from Illinois and I looked at my husband and said, “Did he say what I thought he just said, ” and Buck said, “I think he said something like that.” We were amazed! That is pretty wonderful because that makes a lot of difference to the people who say the Torah is only for the Jews.
I am also studying with Tim Hegg on 10 questions on why we keep the Torah. My Sunday night Bible study that I have been involved in for 8 years is currently studying the 2nd Temple period from Solomon thru the Apocrypha. We just began that about 3 weeks ago.
Hello,
This is off topic of your post, and I apologize for that, but I couldn’t think of any other place to put it.
I’ve been trying to put my request into a coherent sort of form before I posted, but it’s become clear that coherence isn’t going to come, so I’m just going to post the incoherence, and hope that it makes some sort of sense.
I was hoping that you, or really, anyone reading this, would have a recommendation on a book to read for someone who’s never even thought about the roots of Christianity in Judaism, except in the vague, ‘oh, that was the old way, and we don’t have to do it that way anymore’ sort of fashion, until she stumbled on your blog. I think that’s where the incoherence comes in, because it’s such a huge question, and I’m not even really sure where to begin. I know there’s a post on recommendations just before this one, I’m just not sure which, if any, of those books are basic enough for me.
I appreciate any suggestions anyone might have, and I’m going to keep reading on you blog, which I find absolutely fascinating.
Thank you,
Amber
I think Restoration by Daniel Lancaster is an excellent choice.
Holy Cow by Hope Egan is a nice “one subject” friendly book to look at too. It mainly just addresses eating issues. Nothing overwhelming.