Our Father Abraham: Jewish Roots of the Christian Faith (Second Edition) (Biblia.com)

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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...

As we will develop in greater detail in the next chapter, Paul upheld the goodness of the Jewish tradition of torah. Indeed, Paul “came to understand the Christian life as patterned after that of Judaism: it was for him not the antithesis but the full flowering of that Faith.”12 This meant for Paul, diaspora Jew that he was, a deep rooting in the Hebrew Scriptures and rabbinic thought. Paul was proud of being a Jew (2 Cor. 11:22), in his words, “a Hebrew of Hebrews … a Pharisee” (Phil. 3:5). As in

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