The Pre Christian Teachings Of Yeshua

All of the extant authentic sayings and teachings of Yeshua remembered in the earliest oral Jesus traditions and collections compiled by his Jewish disciples A.D. 30-50 before they were rendered into Greek, misunderstood, and Christianized in the later Gospels. •Translated in terms of the original Hebrew/Aramaic vocabulary and idioms used by Yeshua •Explained in the context of Second Temple messianic haggadah, Merkabah, prophetic, and wisdom traditions •Organized and presented as a coherent body of exquisite spiritual teaching that was lost and forgotten in Christianity.

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 probable spiritual practices of the Master Yeshua

The Gospel of Thomas preserves a core of authentic Aramaic sayings of Yeshua older than the earliest Christian writings. When they are isolated from the second-century Gnostic framework, they reveal many of Yeshua's inner-circle kabbalistic teachings. Scholars can restore much of the pre-kabbalistic tradition of Yeshua's era through sources like the Sepher Yetzirah, Sepher Ha-Razim, and the haggadah preserved in the Mishna, Babylonian and Palestinian Talmuds, Philo of Alexandria, and the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament. These were the Holy Scriptures of Essenes, Zadokites, and other messianic Jews of the period, including Yeshua and his disciples. The Psalms they chanted in worship and Shabbat Seder were not just those of our Old Testament, but the messianic Odes of Solomon and others preserved in Enochian and apocalyptic scripture. A study of this forgotten sacred literature allows modern scholars to understand and reconstruct the oral Kabbalah of Yeshua embedded in the Gospel of Thomas.

Jesus said, "I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them to little children." Jesus (Yeshua in his native Aramaic) spoke out against public displays of piety, religious rituals, empty repetition of prayers, and publicizing charitable giving. He also spoke against calling anyone father or rabbi, and that his true enemies were the religious elites. Jesus also never said, "Go to church" or "Worship me," and he counted many women among his followers, and they were credited with funding his ministry. Yeshua Speaks: The Paleo-Christian Teachings of Jesus for Nonbelievers reveals these and other little-known facts about Jesus and his teachings. It also dispels many of the misunderstandings that turn people away from Christianity and keep them from reading the actual words of Jesus. It does not include the virgin birth, miracles, prophecies, or death and resurrection, just the essential spoken words of Jesus in the Gospels. This book is for atheists, agnostics, disenchanted or disillusioned Christians, or anyone from other faiths who knows nothing of the teachings of Jesus and has had no exposure to the basic teachings of Jesus other than what they may have heard from mainstream sources. The 207 sayings included in Yeshua Speaks are grouped in categories ranging from Anxiety to Wealth and include a section of 51 passages on what Jesus said about religion, religious leaders, and the outwardly religious. Yeshua Speaks presents the essential words of Jesus as his first-century audience would have heard them preached and shows that Jesus' message is more than just a collection of helpful sayings, but a spiritual manifesto just as revolutionary, and desperately needed, today as it was 2,000 years ago. Jesus primarily preached a vision of a God that loves and cares about you and wants you to have a better life, not a threatening message of condemnation and eternal damnation. "There is a God, so stop worrying and enjoy your life," is what lies at the heart of this book, and the core of Jesus' teachings. Stephen Snyder is an advocate for a spiritual revolution with a return to the basics of Christianity and a movement based primarily on the New Testament and principally the teachings in the four Gospels of Jesus. He is the author of seven nonfiction books.

First, there was Jesus (Yeshua), the baby born in Bethlehem. Then the baby grew up and, for one year, led an itinerant, mostly rural ministry. Fast-forward 2,000 years. Jesus' teaching has become one of the world's great religions, but it also has fragmented into countless schools of thought. Somewhere along the way, the teaching was obscured by a wide variety of conflicting religious, political, and theological forces. Who was Jesus the man, and what did he actually teach? In The Gospel of Yeshua: A Fresh Look at the Life and Teaching of Jesus, veteran journalist Skip Johnson combines ancient testimony with modern Bible research to produce a richly detailed portrait of the life and teaching of Jesus. This biography presents Jesus' teaching as his disciples would have heard and understood it, and it focuses on how anyone can attain happiness beyond human imagination, regardless of present circumstances.

Jesus is not who you think he is. The year is 75 CE. Joseph ben Jude, the nephew of Yeshua, is frail and ailing, but he gathers together stacks of goat-skin parchment and picks up a reed pen. He has a prophecy to fulfill before his death: that he will record the story of his uncle Yeshua. A former Essene and now an Ebionite—the first generation of non-Gentile Christians—Joseph grieves over the destruction of the Temple. He fears the End Times are near. He is also troubled by the accounts already being told of his uncle. His grandmother—a virgin? His uncle—the son of god? Simon Peter—head of the early Church and not his uncle James? Follow Joseph as the suppressed story of Yeshua and the early Church unfolds, revealing a message of hope that resounds throughout the ages and speaks to us even more urgently today.

Jesus was a Jew who was born, lived, and died within first-century Judaism. His lifestyle was characteristic of the Jews of that day. Since the New Testament is highly Hebraic- background, writers, culture, religion, traditions, concepts, etc.- any full understanding needs this perspective.