OVING JEWISH NEIGHBORS is a seminar for Christians who want to understand and honor Jewish neighbors. It navigates through a maze of conficting information and stereotypes, then equips Christians with biblical solutions to challenges that have vexed Jewish-Christian relations for over two-thousand years.   This graduate-level seminar is taught by one of Christianty’s preeminent scholars of Judaism, and designed for grassroots Christians without formal theological training. All will be informed, challenged and inspired. INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Marvin R. Wilson NIV Bible translator and acclaimed author of Our Father Abraham: Jewish Roots of the Christian Faith (made into an award-winning PBS documentary), Dr. Wilson is currently Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies at Gordon College. About his most recent book Exploring Our Hebraic Heritage, the Jewish intellectual Prof. Susannah Heschel, daughter of the legendary Jewish theologian, Abraham Joshua Heschel, writes,   “For two thousand years, we have longed for a Christian scholar of Judaism as sensitive and knowledgeable as Marvin Wilson, and his work fulfills our hopes. Insightful and deeply learned, this book is a remarkable example of a Christian theology that affirms Judaism with respect and appreciation.” —Prof. Susannah Heschel   Attend Loving Jewish Neighbors and discover Part I: Understanding Jews

• What Jews really believe about God, Jesus and Christians
• Jewish sensitivities every Christian should know
• Expressions of Christian faith that Jews appreciate most
• Changes and developments in Judaism since Bible times
• The parting of ways: Why church and synagogue split
• The de-Judaization of Christianity
• When Christians visit the synagogue
• Jewish holy days and festivals
• Keys to Jewish ethics, philosophy and biblical wholism

Part II: Responding to Jews

• Learning through Jewish dialogue
• Supercessionism and Noachide Law
• Lessons from the Holocaust
• Anti-semitism and the church
• Seeking justice and peace in the Holy Land
• Christian views on modern Israel that scare Jews
• Impasse and opportunity in responding to theological difference
• Creeds and deeds
• Tikkun olam

Part III: Studying Scripture with Jews

• Authoritative sources in Jewish study
• Relevancy of the Torah for Christians
• Jewish vs. Christian interpretive methods
• Guidelines for understanding prophetic literature
• Reading Isaiah together
• Paradox and polarity in Biblical revelation
• Navigating through difference
• The nature of Hebrew prophecy
• Abraham as a model for peacemaking

  Accessible, Flexible, Online

•  Attend anytime anywhere.
•  Watch on any computer, tablet, smart phone, or TV with your home Bible study group.*
•  Recorded before a live audience at Saratoga Federated Church, California.
•  21 sessions uniquely suited for individual or small group study.
•  Average session length: 47 minutes.