Rabbi Moffic is an engaging teacher who excels at communicating ancient truths for modern audiences. His insights into Hebrew scriptures and the Jewish heritage of the Christian faith will be a blessing to all who want to learn about Jesus.
Evan Moffic is the youngest rabbi of a major congregation in the United States. A graduate with high honors from Stanford University, he is the author of the forthcoming What Every Christian Ought to Know about Passover and What Every Christian Ought to Know about the Jewishness of Jesus (Abingdon Press).
He has a passion for helping Christians learn about Judaism and the Old Testament in a way that makes their faith stronger and deeper. He has appeared numerous times as a religious commentator on Fox News, blogs regularly for the Huffington Post and Beliefnet.Com, has his own popular blog www.rabbi.me, and speaks at churches and interfaith conferences around the country. He and his wife and two children make their home in suburban Chicago.
Many Christians feel mystified by the Old Testament. Isn’t it just long lists of genealogies and laws? Yet, it was the Bible Jesus knew and read. Rabbi Evan Moffic, author of the forthcoming What Every Christian Should Know about the Jewishness of Jesus, brings the Old Testament to life. He sheds lights on its hidden treasures and shows the way it shaped the faith of Jesus and the Apostles.
Understanding Jesus’s parables and teachings requires understanding Jesus’s Jewish context. How would the parables have been heard by Jesus’s original Jewish listeners, and how might those original messages still speak to Christians and Jews today? Rabbi Evan Moffic, author of the forthcoming What Every Christian Should Know about the Jewishness of Jesus, addresses questions through a range of historical and sacred sources.
The relationship between Christians and Jews underwent a transformation in the last century. Hostility and hatred were replaced by learning, cooperation and hope. Rabbi Evan Moffic, author of the upcoming What Every Christian Should Know about Passover, traces this history and explores the seminal events and the spirit that made it possible. He suggests that continuing to strengthen this relationship is critical to Western civilization and religious vitality in the twenty-first century.
Israel is more than modern political state. It is a sacred land promised in Scripture and filled with a rich history of settlement, conflict, and hope. Rabbi Evan Moffic, author of the forthcoming What Every Christian Should Know about the Jewishness of Jesus and a frequent visitor to the holy land, will look at the ways Jews and Christians relate to it through Scripture, worship and history.