Understanding the Difficult Words of Jesus: New Insights from a Hebraic Perspective

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Summary: This is the Missing Link!
Review: These guys have tapped into the fundamental issue of understanding the New Testament. To understand the Jewish thought, culture and language of the 1st century is to know the real Jesus and His teachings. Jesus was an observant Jew, and modern day Christianity has seemed to overlook that for too long. Read this book to understand Jewish idiom and thought. Then, Jesus' words begin to make a lot more sense.

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Summary: A great book which brings out the accurate Jesus.
Review: This book is full of countless insights into the life of the true historical and spiritual Jesus. It proves without a doubt, that Yeshua taught in Hebrew, and shows how vital our understanding of this Hebrew is to the conception and realization of Jesus. This book should be on the shelves of all churches and schools

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Summary: The New Testament, undeniably Hebraic
Review: This book really does help one understand the difficult words of Jesus, but from a different perspective. Instead on giving interpretations upon interpretations of scripture, for the most part, this author emphasizes and shows that the perspective or mindset one has when reading the Bible has everything to do with understanding it. To understand the NT one has to understand that Jesus was Jewish and start from there. This book is an eye opener and hard to put down.

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Summary: A Fine and Concise Study of Biblical Language
Review: This is just what I've been searching for: a book about Hebrew and how it works, and the idioms that might explain some of the often confusing phrases used in the New Testament. This book is easy to read and very convincing. You don't have to agree with everything the authors say to benefit from the text. But it helps enormously. And it does indeed open up the more difficult words of Christ with possible interpretations that make very good sense. For a person who can not tackle Greek or Hebrew from the ground up, this is marvelous. I wish there were more books like this one -- and books that would delve into how language must affect thinking. I refer to word order here, to preferences for certain proverbs and expressions. Surely a language has a personality. This book helped me to understand something of the personality of Hebrew.

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Summary: Yeshua (Jesus) was a Torah-observant Jew who spoke Hebrew.
Review: This is one of the best written books about the words and sayings of Yeshua the Messiah. It presents a crisp, complete, concise understanding about Yeshua's teachings. Are the words of Yeshua really difficult to understand? Yes, very much so if you do not know that He was born into a Jewish, Torah-observant home, kept the commandments of G-d and taught others to do so, and most importantly, spoke Hebrew. This is the key to understanding the difficult words of Yeshua....that He spoke Hebrew. Only if we discipline ourselves and learn to read the Scriptures through eastern eyes rather than western eyes can we really appreciate the teachings of our Messiah. His words explode with deeper meaning for us as we begin to view them through the eyes and culture of the Jewish Messiah. Every time we read His words, we need to ask the question, "Where did He get that from in the Torah?" After all, He is the living Torah. This book should be in the library of every serious talmid (student) of the Bible.