Yeshua: The Unknown Jesus
by Lewis Keizer
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ISBN: 978-0-6151-6738-1
Publisher: Lewis or Willa Keizer
Rights Owner: Lewis and Willa Keizer
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© 2007 Lewis Keizer Standard Copyright License
Language: English
Country: United States
Edition: Second Edition
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Printed: 401 pages, 8.5" x 11", perfect binding, black and white interior ink Description:My fictional biography of Jesus is designed to introduce readers to the forgotten world of Jewish Messianic, Kabbalistic, prophetic, wisdom, and Merkabah mysticism that was known to the Jewish disciples of Yeshua, but completely lost to emerging gentile Christianity. It provides a simple, non-academic way for readers to understand what only profound academic study can reveal,and illuminates the authentic historical teachings and practices of the Master Yeshua. Keywords:Listed in: |
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Book Review By its Editor the Most Rev. Daniel Doornbos
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31 Aug 2007 (updated 31 Aug 2007)
by Lewis Keizer
Yeshua: The Unknown Jesus is a true adventure story. Not only does it recount the adventures of an individual whom most of us know precious little about, but it also takes the reader on an adventure—a challenge to your intellect, beliefs, and faith.
Some readers will be thoroughly scandalized by this story—Jesus as a real human being, working for a living, struggling with life’s challenges, falling in love, fighting to protect a friend, and tragically losing his family. In the novel, you walk with Jesus as he grows from a little boy to young man, when he leaves home, travels, labors, and develops his skills as a craftsman and a man of God. You are there as he spiritually awakens, learns to heal and meditate, you meet his teachers and mentors, and you witness his call to the ministry. As the story continues, you meet the people of his times, the Romans, Pharisees, Sadducees, Sicarii, Essenes, and see their struggles as Jesus may have seen them.
Risking a charge of blasphemy, let me dare to compare Yeshua with the Bible. While the Gospels are assumed to be the truth—the Gospel Truth—they in fact contain many human errors that tend to mislead the reader as to the Jesus’ teachings and their proper application. On the other hand, Yeshua—sold as a work of fiction—in reality unfolds many truths than can potentially guide and enlighten the reader about Jesus, his mission and message.
The back cover says, “[Yeshua] provides a simple, non-academic way for readers to understand what only profound academic study can reveal, though few scholars really comprehend.” True. But don’t fool yourself. This novel is serious reading. You will need to use the glossary. And I highly recommend some concurrent study, using the Internet, of the concepts, places, and histories that are unfamiliar to you.
Dr. Keizer is a brilliant guy who has invested nearly half a century to religious, spiritual, and esoteric research, practice, and education. His experience quickly becomes apparent in the first few pages of Yeshua: The Unknown Jesus.
My rating:
Daniel Doornbos
San Jose, California
August 30, 2007
Some readers will be thoroughly scandalized by this story—Jesus as a real human being, working for a living, struggling with life’s challenges, falling in love, fighting to protect a friend, and tragically losing his family. In the novel, you walk with Jesus as he grows from a little boy to young man, when he leaves home, travels, labors, and develops his skills as a craftsman and a man of God. You are there as he spiritually awakens, learns to heal and meditate, you meet his teachers and mentors, and you witness his call to the ministry. As the story continues, you meet the people of his times, the Romans, Pharisees, Sadducees, Sicarii, Essenes, and see their struggles as Jesus may have seen them.
Risking a charge of blasphemy, let me dare to compare Yeshua with the Bible. While the Gospels are assumed to be the truth—the Gospel Truth—they in fact contain many human errors that tend to mislead the reader as to the Jesus’ teachings and their proper application. On the other hand, Yeshua—sold as a work of fiction—in reality unfolds many truths than can potentially guide and enlighten the reader about Jesus, his mission and message.
The back cover says, “[Yeshua] provides a simple, non-academic way for readers to understand what only profound academic study can reveal, though few scholars really comprehend.” True. But don’t fool yourself. This novel is serious reading. You will need to use the glossary. And I highly recommend some concurrent study, using the Internet, of the concepts, places, and histories that are unfamiliar to you.
Dr. Keizer is a brilliant guy who has invested nearly half a century to religious, spiritual, and esoteric research, practice, and education. His experience quickly becomes apparent in the first few pages of Yeshua: The Unknown Jesus.
My rating:
Daniel Doornbos
San Jose, California
August 30, 2007
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