Oh Jew, Oh Gentile, Why? Facing Our Estrangement, Pursuing Biblical Reconciliation
Ebook
Oh Jew, Oh Gentile, Why? explores the situation that Jews and the church currently face by searching back to the roots of Jewish leadership's animosity against Christians and Gentile atrocities against Jews. This is a call to recognize and admit Christendom's sins against the Hebrew people for two thousand years. It proposes that Christendom got the big story wrong in the early centuries and challenges the long-held presupposition of having replaced Israel. The chapters raise progressive questions that explore how Christendom's deviations from Scripture escalated, and how these legacies affect Jewish/Gentile relationships today, such as:
How did Christendom become Gentile-ized?
What legacies from the past alienate Jews and the nations today?
Why is the growing Messianic Jewish movement so significant?
Why can God's people move into the future with hope?
Such questions call for redirections vital to generating biblical reconciliation. At this tense time when Jews and Gentiles are reaping the lethal legacy of misguided doctrines and histories, the unity of God's people is a crucial need. Who will accept and be blessed by the oneness already accomplished by Yeshua, the reconciliation that God says extends on into eternity?
“K. M. Bascom writes from a heart of passion. As her pastor, I have witnessed her passion for Jesus, her passion for the church, and her passion for the gospel’s impact on all nations. So when she asks the question ‘Why?’, it is more than rhetorical. This work is a heartfelt plea for God’s people to understand that the Lord’s promise to his chosen people is irrevocable, and that Gentiles will only find God’s blessing through the seed of Abraham.”
—Dennis Toll, associate pastor, Grace Baptist Church
“Today Christians are confused by growing polarization, ideological extremism, social divisions, the specter of another world war, and growing antisemitism. Where is history going? Why would God be allowing these rising evils? What does the conflict in Israel have to do with all this? In this day when Christians need a short but informed guide, this little book is a handy introduction. I recommend it to both Christians and Jews.”
—Gerald McDermott, author of A New History of Redemption: The Work of Jesus the Messiah through the Millennia
“The history of the relationship between the church and the Jewish people is a huge subject covering nineteen centuries. Over my years of ministry to the Jewish people, I have read many books and articles to learn about this history and still don’t know all of it. In her book Oh, Jew, Oh, Gentile, Why?, K. M. Bascom has published a concise and accurate summary of this enormous subject from its beginning to the present. I recommend this book to all who want to quickly learn the important points of this subject that has greatly affected world history.”
—Rabbi James Appel, author of Appointed Times series
“K. M. Bascom writes with a prophetic voice. She casts the messianic vision in a style few others could. This book gives an insider view of Messianic Judaism. In part, this is because she has read so many other books before writing her own. This enables her to synthesize a wide range of thought. Her informative analysis delves into antisemitism, Jewish history, prophetic Israel, replacement theology, Christian separation from Jewish roots, and many other topics.”
—Paul Liberman, president, International Messianic Jewish Alliance
“The latest book by K. M. Bascom could not be more timely or providential. All parties involved in the current crisis in the Middle East are ripe for an insightful assessment of the historical, ethnic, and biblical implications of the millenniums of estrangement among the descendants of Abraham. The author’s experience of decades of service in the Middle East, East Africa, and Eastern Europe inculcated with her immersion in Scripture gives us a ray of light into an ever more darkening world.”
—Paul E. Barkey, On This Day: A Daily Guide to Spiritual Lessons from American History
- Title: Oh Jew, Oh Gentile, Why? Facing Our Estrangement, Pursuing Biblical Reconciliation
- Author: Kay Bascom
- Publisher: Resource Publications
- Print Publication Date: 2024
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9798385210992, 9798385210985, 9798385210978
- Resource ID: LLS:9798385210992
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-05-16T14:52:38Z
K. M. Bascom, now in Kansas after serving in East Africa, has published several biblical studies and is author of Hidden Triumph in Ethiopia and Overcomers, documenting God’s deliverance during Ethiopia’s Marxist Revolution. This new book addresses urgent questions affecting the Middle East and America today.