And this other thing, it’s really interesting. We should embrace this, and love this, and live by this. And then I am told, “Both of those opinions of the rabbis aren’t just opinions - those are the words of the living God.” And I said, “This doesn’t make any sense,” and I went to my rabbis, to my teachers, and I said, “Surely, this is the word of God. And when I was growing up, I actually studied the written Scripture, and I would see there, “And the Lord spoke to Moses saying And thus says the Lord.” And I saw in the words of the rabbis, one rabbi says one thing and another rabbi disagrees and says something else. Christians refer to it as the Old Testament. And as a Karaite Jew, I believe strictly in the written scripture, in the… what Jews call the Tanakh, or the Hebrew Bible. Nehemia: Karaites are Jews who believe strictly in the Old Testament, and I explained a little bit yesterday that many Jews today believe in the teachings of the rabbis, that these teachings were handed down by God to Moses on Mount Sinai. I don’t really know what this is about, but I’ve been reading the literature, and I have just one question. My mentor told me that I need to have you come and speak at the church. Keith and I were speaking over, I believe it was in Ohio, about a year or two ago, and when we arrived there, the pastor, she sits us down before the presentation and she said, “Look, I didn’t really know much about you guys. I mean, what on earth is that about?Īnd first, I have to explain what a Karaite Jew is. What on earth am I, a Karaite Jew, doing together with Keith Johnson, who is an African-American Methodist pastor? It’s almost like the introduction to a joke, what on earth are we doing together? And we’re studying the Hebrew origins of what his people call the Lord’s Prayer. Okay, yeah.Īnyway, but really, I think this picture speaks a thousand words.
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She has a confused look on her face, and she says, “How did you get your skin to be so white?” No, I was the fat, white guy with hair. What’s really funny about this is, I used the same joke over, I believe it was in Kansas, a couple of years ago, and one woman walks up to me afterwards, and she has this confused look on her face. You could see, I looked a little bit different back then. And here’s actually a picture of us from four years ago, when we were doing this. Keith flew over to Israel where I’ve lived since 1993, and we travelled around the Galilee, searching for the place where Yeshua, Jesus, taught this prayer, what’s commonly known in the Christian world as the Lord’s Prayer. And we actually did the main research for this book about four years ago. Nehemia: I’m going to talk to you today about A Prayer to Our Father, the book that Keith and I wrote on the Hebrew origins of the Lord’s Prayer.
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You are listening to the Open Door Series with Nehemia Gordon. The Hebrew Gospel of Matthew with Nehemia Gordon (Open Door Series - Part 2) Gordon concludes with a moving account of a personal revelation of God’s Fatherly love and his willingness to carry the sin debt for us.
He focuses on passages from the Lord’s Prayer, which led him to the realization that the concept of God as Father is also prevalent in the Tanakh (Old Testament). Gordon explains the flaws inherit in the best translations and explores the rich meaning in the word puns only present in the Hebrew text. Nehemia Gordon, a Karaite Jew and academic scholar, relates how he joined together with Keith Johnson, an African American Methodist pastor to study an original Hebrew version of the Gospel of Matthew. Open Door Series Part 2 features Nehemia Gordon speaking on the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew.
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