{ "item_title" : "Beginning with Genesis", "item_author" : [" Shane Schagrin "], "item_description" : "I was 39 years old, sitting alone in my house, watching a debate on YouTube.Christian apologists were walking an Orthodox Jew through our own scriptures. Daniel. Isaiah. The Psalms. Moses. They read him a prophecy about an anointed one cut off before the Second Temple fell. They read him a passage about a servant pierced for our sins, who dies and then sees his days prolonged. They read him a vision of a man coming on the clouds of heaven, the way only God comes.Then they asked him to explain it. I could see the answer on his face. He wouldn't say it.That silence sent me back to the same books I had read from at my bar mitzvah without understanding a word. This is what I found.I was raised in a Reform Jewish home. I had my bar mitzvah, I was proud of my heritage, and I had never once opened the Bible looking for Jesus. Beginning with Genesis is what happened when I finally did. Starting in the garden, I walk through the promises God made to Israel: the seed of the woman, the blessing through Abraham, the scepter of Judah, the prophet like Moses, the ruler from Bethlehem whose origins are from ancient days, the king the Psalms call God's son, and the servant of Isaiah 53. Then I ask one honest question. Who fits?Along the way I deal with the things I had to work through myself. What the Dead Sea Scrolls show about Jewish messianic expectation before Jesus. What non-Christian historians recorded. Whether the resurrection accounts hold up. Why the creeds came centuries later. And why most of us were never told any of this was in our own books.So many of us were taught that believing in Yeshua means turning our backs on our families and our faith. I want to show you it is the opposite. God promised Abraham that all the families of the earth would be blessed through him. Isaiah said the Messiah would be a light to the nations. Because of Yeshua, billions of people worship the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Look around. The promise came true.This book is written for Jewish readers who have questions and nowhere safe to ask them, for Christians who want to understand the Jewish roots of what they believe, and for anyone who has ever wondered whether the Hebrew scriptures point anywhere.Includes a chapter by chapter walk through the messianic prophecies, questions for reflection and discussion, an appendix of the promises and where to find them, a family tree of Yeshua, a glossary of Hebrew and rabbinic terms, and a guide to where to start reading on your own.You don't have to take my word for any of it. Open the scroll and read it for yourself.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/816/224/9798162242987_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "15.99", "online_price" : "15.99", "our_price" : "15.99", "club_price" : "15.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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