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Our Father Abraham: Jewish Roots of the Christian Faith (Second Edition) is unavailable, but you can change that!

Although the roots of Christianity run deep into Hebrew soil, many Christians remain regrettably uninformed about the rich Jewish heritage of the church. Our Father Abraham delineates the vital link between Judaism and Christianity, exemplified by the common ancestry of the two faiths traceable back to Abraham. Marvin Wilson calls Christians to reexamine their Semitic heritage to regain a more...

religion is Hebrew, the traditions are Hebrew, and the concepts are Hebrew.”24 If on this point we are essentially agreed, the next step is to define the sources and scope of this biblical heritage, and to think about the ongoing relevance of Judaism in the church today. In what sense ought gentile believers to become “Jewish” in identity and lifestyle through being spiritually “grafted” into Israel? What can be done to begin to restore the loss of Jewish perspective in today’s church? These questions
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