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The Forgotten Jesus

How Western Christians Should Follow an Eastern Rabbi

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We have lost an essential understanding of Jesus—his Jewishness.

Through the years, our understanding of Jesus has been shaped by different cultural influences, and many Western Christians have formed an inaccurate perspective of Jesus and his teachings, beliefs, and ways of acting.

In Robby Gallaty's deeply reformative book, he reveals the essential Hebraic culture, customs, and nuances many Christians have forgotten or never learned. And he argues that as long as Jesus's Jewish context is misplaced and misunderstood, our understanding of the Bible, our faith, and the church falls far short.

The Forgotten Jesus will open your eyes to:

  • The first-century world in which Jesus lived and its connection to the time of the Old Testament.
  • The vast differences between the Western and Middle Eastern mind, and how our modern approach to understanding the Bible is influenced far more by the Greeks and Romans than by a Hebrew way of thinking.
  • Essential textual connections between the parts of the Bible that we often overlook.
  • Important Hebraic perspectives on the Messiah to point out some errors many Christians have believed through the years.
  • Why Jesus's words on the cross about God forsaking him may have deeper meaning than we realize.
  • By uncovering the teaching of the first- and second-century rabbis and Christian theologians, and highlighting little-known Jewish idioms and traditions, Gallaty takes Christians on a biblical journey to rediscover a forgotten Jesus from a biblical perspective, deepening your relationship with God.

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      • Publisher's Weekly

        Starred review from April 3, 2017
        In this short work, Gallaty, senior pastor of Long Hollow Baptist Church in Hendersonville, Tenn., fleshes out the Jewishness of Jesus and suggests that familiarity with the Jewish faith is crucial to understanding Jesus’s life and teachings. Beginning with the typical representations of the Messiah in the Hebrew scriptures and then presenting their fulfillment in the Gospel accounts, the author digs beneath the text to discover a rich tapestry of meaning based on Jewish life and custom that can be overlooked by a surface reading of the text. Gallaty persuasively catalogues nuanced readings of ancient Greek text that will be completely missed without knowledge of the ancient traditions of the Hebrews that drove their telling of the gospel story. How many know the interesting history behind “swaddling cloths,” and what is the meaning of “touching the hem of his garment”? Questions like these are answered with an eye toward broadening the reader’s understanding of the Jesus story in this informative text, which closes with a 52-week Bible reading schedule.

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