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Reading the Bible with Rabbi Jesus: How a Jewish Perspective Can Transform Your Understanding is unavailable, but you can change that!

What if you could sit down beside Jesus as he explained the Bible to you? What life-changing insights might emerge? Vast treasures await us when we read the Scriptures as a native, through the eyes of one of Jesus’s first-century Jewish disciples. Combining careful research with engaging prose, Lois Tverberg acts as a master guide, transporting us across the cultural divide between our world and...

well as kings like Saul, David, and Solomon. Several times in the Scriptures God told a prophet to go anoint someone and proclaim him king.1 During the reign of Israel’s great monarchs we first start hearing the phrase “anointed one” (mashiach) regularly, and from then on it was most often used to refer to a king. David used this term many times to refer to King Saul, even when Saul was bent on hunting down David and killing him. Listen to what David exclaimed after he encountered Saul in a cave
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