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As an author, Bible teacher, and study tour leader, I have had the privilege of walking the lands of the Bible with thousands of Jesus’ followers who came to see where Abraham, Ruth, David, and Jesus lived. I enjoyed watching group after group slowly come to realize that the Bible’s stories are set in real times and real places. As they learned more about the land, the people, and the culture of the Bible, these believers saw that the context God chose for his redemptive plan could help them apply the Word to their own lives. At the end of their travels, I often heard people say, “I will never read the Bible the same way again.”

Many returned home from Israel or Turkey or Greece with their faith in Jesus deepened but hungry for more — much more. The pilgrim excitement of “walking where Jesus walked” became a growing thirst for a deeper understanding of God’s story—a thirst as palpable as their need for bottled water in the hot, dry climate of Israel.

I know their experience well—that was my journey too. I began to explore the Jewish world of Jesus with a desire to deepen my faith in Jesus. I was familiar with the accounts of his life and believed them to be true. I accepted his claims to be the Messiah and believed in his redemptive death. But as I entered the world of Jewish thought, I began to wonder about the faith of Jesus. I struggled to understand what I should learn from the accounts of how he lived. Was it simply to explain why he must die? Or was his life a pattern to be understood and emulated? And what did it mean to imitate him in my walk with God?

As I explored the lands and cultures of the Bible, I realized that I did indeed need to have not only faith in Jesus, but also to develop the faith of Jesus. To be a disciple of Jesus ...

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About Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus: How the Jewish Words of Jesus Can Change Your Life

In this ebook download of Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus, Lois Tverberg challenges readers to follow their Rabbi more closely by reexamining his words in the light of their Jewish context. Doing so will provide a richer, deeper understanding of his ministry, compelling us to live differently, to become more Christ-like. We'll begin to understand why his first Jewish disciples abandoned everything to follow him, to live out his commands.

Our modern society, with its individualism and materialism, is very different than the tight-knit, family-oriented setting Jesus lived and taught in. What wisdom can we glean from his Eastern, biblical attitude toward life? How can knowing Jesus within this context shed light on his teachings for us today?

In Walking in the Dust of Rabbi Jesus we'll journey back in time to eavesdrop on the conversations that arose among the rabbis of Jesus' day, and consider how hearing Rabbi Jesus with the ears of a first-century disciple can bring new meaning to our faith. And we'll listen to Jewish thinkers through the ages, discovering how ideas that germinated in Jesus' time have borne fruit. Doing so will yield fresh, practical insights for following our Rabbi's teachings from a Jewish point of view.

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