Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1870091 in Books
• Published on: 1989-08
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 227 pages

Customer Reviews

Excellent book on the Hebrew Idioms that are in the Bible
This book can be read and re-read over and over because there is much depth here. Jesus used the Hebrew language of the day to express Truth about the Kingdom of God. Robert Lindsey and others help to uncover the real meanings behind the Gospel sayings of Jesus. Buy it, Read it and change your thinking about the Kingdom!

"The only way to get to know some of the hard passages."
Bob Lindsay's struggle to translate Mark into Hebrew from Greek led to a lifetime quest to know the truth behind some of the hard passages of the Bible to understand. His work saves the rest of us a lot of misunderstanding.

Hebrew OR Aramaic? A Review From Someone Who Loves 'Jesus Rabbi and Lord'
I found Dr. Robert Lindsey's awesome book when I worked at a Christian bookstore many years ago, on a close-out table. It then cost $2.50, if I remember correctly.

But look at the price of 'Jesus Rabbi and Lord', nowadays!

What I'd like to propose is that perhaps Dr. Robert Lindsey's ideas of translating the Greek New Testament 'backwards' into a very readable kind of Hebrew, is perhaps like winding the clock backwards, instead of forwards.

Most people don't seem to understand this, but Aramaic and Hebrew are very closely related languages, both of which Yeshua/Jesus probably used.

The Aramaic was His everyday native tongue, and Hebrew was the language of the Temple, and the synagogue.

Secondly, Eastern Syriac (a dialect of Aramaic) is very close to the kind of Western Palestinian Aramaic that Yeshua/Jesus actually spoke.

The Eastern Syriac New Testament is, unlike the Greek New Testament, very concise in its translation, and unlike the MANY various translations of Greek New Testaments, there is only ONE Eastern Syriac New Testament, and all of the Assyrian Churches of the East use(d) this one New Testament.

The Khabouris Codex is a very ancient rendition of the Eastern Syriac New Testament, and is said to have been copied from another Syriac New Testament during the Second Century, although the Khabouris Codex itself was written in the 12th Century.

As much as I love Dr. Lindsey's book 'Jesus Rabbi and Lord', I think that he was, to a certain degree, trying to 'reinvent the wheel".

And as I've studied much deeper into what's left of very ancient Near Eastern First Century Christianity, and its very distinct 'Roots' within Judaism, it becomes much clearer that Jesus/Yeshua very likely spoke Aramaic, and NOT Hebrew, as His birth language.

What I see about this very expensive (now) and hard to find book, is that how much further that Biblical research and scholarship has moved on into the area of recognizing the deep 'Roots' of Judaism buried in the heart of ancient Eastern Christianity, especially in Syriac speaking churches, or churches that actually use Aramaic (Syriac) within their liturgies.

Dr. Lindsey's early research reminds me of Dr. Charles Cutler Torrey's early 19th Century research into Aramaic being the language of Jesus/Yeshua.

Now, having said all of this, I think that Dr. Robert Lindsey was a literal genius for his day. His dialogue with Jewish scholars (especially with Dr. David Flusser) was pretty much an unprecedented thing for a Christian Gentile to do.

His leadership as Pastor of The Narkis Street Baptist Church (now known as 'The Narkis Street Congregation'), was something done by someone who was an Oklahoma Southern Baptist, that had literally never been done before.

Dr. Lindsey was working to 'Hebraicize' even his little Narkis Street Baptist Church, and this was just unthinkable in those days......except to Dr. Robert Lindsey!

His arrival in 'Palestine', before Israel once again became a nation, and his learning to speak Modern Hebrew (with a lot of Aramaic "loan words" thrown into the mix) while living with a Jewish family in Jerusalem, was a literal living way to learn what would soon become the language of the reborn nation of modern Israel.

This book tells us all of these stories about Bob Lindsey, a man who was light-years ahead of his time.

I ofter wonder what Dr. Lindsey would think of the current Jewish Roots Movement within the Christian church, and the rebirth of modern Messianic Judaism with perhaps as many as 10,000 Jewish members now living in the land of Israel.

Whether you believe that Jesus/Yeshua spoke Aramaic or Hebrew (or BOTH, and perhaps with a bit of Latin, and maybe even a little bit of Greek thrown in as well!), you will learn much from this awesome book!

If we could work on getting it reprinted, and bringing the price down some, it would be of great benefit to us all.

I can't think of ANY other book where I learned so much about Hebraicized Christianity!

This book is about Dr. Lindsey's personal spiritual journey, where you'll find yourself reflected in its pages, especially if you're an Hebraic Roots person, like I am!

If you can actually find this book, take my advice......BUY IT!!

Shalom, Shlama, Albion