Abraham Joshua Heschel - Annotated Bibliography

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Abraham Joshua Heschel - Annotated Bibliography

Date Created: Nov 22, 2004, 09:17 AM

Making my regular round of blogs this morning, I was delighted to find my short essay "Things Gentile Christians May Never Understand" recommended by "pastordraven" at the "Jewish God-fearer in a room full of Christians" blog. (I'd been afraid to mention it to him myself; self-recommendation by strangers seems even more false on the web than anywhere else).

Anyway, one of the recommendations I made to him may apply to you too: If you aren't reading Abraham Joshua Heschel, you want to get some right away. He was an Conservative (nearly Orthodox) Jewish rabbi who knew his Judaism and Scriptures so well that he is microns away from deducing Christianity. The very title of the book I most recommend shows what I mean: God in Search of Man. Second highly most recommended is his Man is Not Alone. In those two, you clearly see what God was up to in Jesus Christ from a different angle. His The Sabbath is extremely interesting, but more from a "what can Judaism say to Christians" sort of angle. The Earth is the Lord's and The Prophets are valuable in their own right but won't send you shivers like the others. (There are other books and essays, but these are the ones I've read.)