Resource List

Messianic Jewish Resources

Explore the variety of materials and courses offered by the Union and our scholarly partners.

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• THE MEANING AND IMPORTANCE OF THE JEWISH HOLIDAYS (Menorah Ministries, 1979))

• SIDDUR FOR MESSIANIC JEWS (Menorah Ministries, 1984), which includes 25 pages on the meaning of, and lessons found in, the traditional liturgy; and is available in both Russian and Spanish as well. 

• MESSIANIC SERVICES FOR FESTIVALS AND HOLY DAYS (Menorah Ministries, 1992), which includes a brief intro to each of the holidays and their connection to Yeshua

• THE ENDURING PARADOX: JESUS AND JUDAISM: EXPLORATORY ESSAYS ON MESSIANIC JUDAISM (Lederer, 2000).

• THE DISTORTION: 2000 YEARS OF MISREPRESENTING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN JESUS AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE (Lederer, 2004), co-written with Dr. Patrice Fischer 

• THE GOSPELS IN THEIR JEWISH CONTEXT (Lederer, 2012)

• THE EPISTLES FROM A JEWISH PERSPECTIVE (Lederer, 2013)

• JEWISH ROOTS AND FOUNDATIONS OF SCRIPTURE (Lederer, 2014)

• “Why A Messianic Movement?”  TRINITY JOURNAL  (Spring 1976)

• “Messianic Judaism,” UNITED EVANGELICAL ACTION (Fall 1976)

• “Messianic Jews Are Still Jews,” CHRISTIANITY TODAY (April 24, 1981)

• “God After the Holocaust,” JUDAISM (Summer 1983)

• “Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts,” THE HEBREW CHRISTIAN  (Winter 1984)

• “Paul in His Jewish Context,” EVANGELICAL QUARTERLY (July 1985)

• “Torah: Can You Work Your Way to God?”  MESSIANIC OUTREACH (Autumn 1986)

• “The Rabbinic View of God, A Contrast to Maimonides,” MESSIANIC OUTREACH (Summer 1987)

• “Covenant & Treaty: Implications for Scripture,” MESSIANIC OUTREACH (Spring 1988)

• https://www.menorahministries.com/product-page/galatians-from-a-messianic-jewish-perspectiveMESSIANIC OUTREACH (Autumn 1988 – Summer 1989)

• “Covenant, Fulfillment & Judaism in Hebrews,” MESSIANIC OUTREACH (Autumn 1989 - Spring 1990)

• “Jesus & Early Judaism,” MESSIANIC OUTREACH (Summer 1990 - Spring 1991)

• “The Development of the Messianic Concept,” MESSIANIC OUTREACH (Summer 1991 - Spring 1992)

• “The Place of Rabbinic Tradition in a Messianic Jewish Lifestyle,”  MESSIANIC OUTREACH (Fall 1994)

• “Mah Zeh?" KESHER (Summer 1994)

• “Foundations of Messianic Theology,” MISHKAN (1, 1995)

• “The Lifestyle and Teachings of Jesus,” THE INTERPRETER (Winter 1996)

• “Making Messianic Worship Meaningful,” MISHKAN (1, 1997)

• “Why Is This Night Different?” MESSIANIC TIMES (Spring 1997)

• “Yeshua and Halacha: Which Direction?” KESHER (Summer 1997)

• “Messianic Conversion: It Is Viable,” KESHER (Winter 1998)

• “Witnesses for the Reliability of the Older Testament,” MESSIANIC JEWISH LIFE (Jan - Mar, 1999)

• “The Resurrection of Yeshua: Myth or Fact?” MESSIANIC JEWISH LIFE (Apr - June, 1999)

• “The Rabbinic View of God: A Contrast to the Rambam,” KESHER (Summer 2001)

• “The Legitimacy of Conversion,” in VOICES OF MESSIANIC JUDAISM, ed. Dan Cohn-Sherbok (Lederer 2001)

• “Yes, We Do Need Messianic Congregations!” and “Messianic Congregations Should Exist and Should Be Very Jewish,” in HOW JEWISH IS CHRISTIANITY? TWO VIEWS ON THE MESSIANIC MOVEMENT, ed. Louis Goldberg (Zondervan 2003)

• “Yeshua: The Deity Debate,” MISHKAN, (#39, 2003)

• “A Place and a Name: The Conversion of Gentiles,” KESHER (Summer 2005)

• “Soteriology: The View From Here,” MISHKAN (#53, 2007)

• “The Centrality of Community & History to the Messianic Jewish Narrative,” KESHER (Summer / Fall 2017)

• "Law in Romans: An Interpretive Proposal," KESHER (Summer - Fall 2021) 

•   Esher Redux? Scripture Coding in the Trial and Execution of Yeshua, KESHER (2021 )

• The Place of Gentiles in Messianic Judaism," in Cohn-Sherbok's VOICES OF MESSIANIC JUDAISM.