Introducing Besorah: The Resurrection of Jerusalem and the Healing of a Fractured Gospel

Co-authors Mark Kinzer and Russ Resnik discuss their newly released book with Jen Rosner.
Paperback & ebook: https://www.amazon.com/Besorah-Resurrection-Jerusalem-Healing-Fractured-ebook/dp/B097J1BBW5

Many students of Scripture take seriously Paul’s assertion that “the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable” (Rom 11:29) and believe that the Jews remain special to God. But this belief in the enduring character of God’s choice of the Jewish people has little direct connection to the “gospel” that Christians affirm and proclaim. This gospel differs little in its Jewish implications from the one announced in the second century. The death and resurrection of Jesus still have no positive bearing on the historical life or destiny of the Jewish people as a priestly nation, or so this gospel seems to declare.

In this book we argue that it was not always so, and that it should no longer be so. We present an understanding of the good news in which the death and resurrection of Jesus are inseparable from the historical journey and destiny of the Jewish people, and we refer to this good news by the term Besorah, the Hebrew equivalent of euangelion or gospel.

The Besorah declared by the apostles is prophetic in character. It points to a finished act of redemption by Israel’s Messiah, and also to the present and future outworking of that act in the life of Messiah’s Israel. Moreover, it declares that Messiah and his own Jewish people together retain a special bond with a place—the land of Israel and the city of Jerusalem. The death and resurrection of the Messiah are as tied to the destiny of that place as they are to the destiny of that people.

We aim in this book to recapture this foundational aspect of the good news. It is seen most clearly in Luke and Acts, but it was largely lost during the second century and never fully recovered. Our recovery effort will help us see the universal impact of Messiah’s life, death, and resurrection in light of their particular prophetic meaning for the Jewish people.

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Besorah-Resurrection-Jerusalem-Healing-Fractured-ebook/dp/B097J1BBW5

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