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SURVEY OF THE TANACH
FOR THE PRACTICAL MESSIANIC
One of the major reasons that today’s Messianic
movement has grown in the past decade is a
significant interest by Believers in the Torah
and the Tanach. In too many cases, the Tanach
Scriptures were not probed in that great a
detail in a Jewish Believer’s traditional
Synagogue upbringing—and perhaps more serious, a
non-Jewish Believer’s Christian experience often
witnessed the Old Testament taking a back seat
to the New Testament in the Church. With many of
the ethical and moral controversies the greater
Judeo-Christian religious community is
experiencing in our age, a need for God’s people
to return to a foundational grounding in the
Tanach Scriptures is absolutely imperative. The
Old Testament cannot simply be disregarded any
more.
Many have stayed away from consulting the Tanach
not because of a lack of interest, but because
few want to have to deal with the controversies
it addresses. Unlike the Apostolic Scriptures,
constrained to the First Century C.E., the
period of the Tanach stretches back all the way
to the beginning of the universe itself.
Questions like: Who was the Pharaoh of the
Exodus? Did God actually condone the genocide of
the Canaanites? and Am I the only one who
thinks the Prophets are mentally disturbed?
are debates that many people do not want to
enter into. Even more significant is the effect
of critical scholarship which has attempted to
divide the Torah into non-Mosaic sources,
question the inspiration and historical
reliability of the text, and even regard much of
the Tanach as Ancient Israel’s mythology. For a
Messianic movement that claims to place a high
value on the Tanach, it is time that we join in
to these conversations.
A Survey of the Tanach for the Practical
Messianic
takes you through the Old Testament from a
distinct Messianic point of view. It presents a
theologically conservative perspective of the
books of the Tanach, but one that does not avoid
some of the controversies that have existed in
Biblical scholarship for over one hundred and
fifty years. The student, in company with his or
her study Bible, is asked to read through each
text of the Tanach, jotting down characters,
place names, key ideas, and reflective
questions. Each book of the Old Testament is
then summarized for its compositional data and
asks you questions to get a good Messianic feel
for the text. This workbook can be used for both
personal and group study, and will be a valuable
aid for any Messianic Believer wanting to study
the whole Bible on a consistent basis.
Click here to read the
Table of Contents and excerpts from
A Survey of the Tanach
for the Practical Messianic (PDF)
 290 pages
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