Forum Papers

The Hashivenu Forum has served the Messianic Jewish community by providing a unique setting where leaders who share a common set of core values are able to take up the most challenging theological issues that confront us today. This setting is a safe place where we can hear the perspectives of many of our finest thinkers and teachers, and wrestle honestly with the difficult questions that inevitably emerge.

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Michael Kashdan – The Messiah and the Scandal of Messianic Jewish Non-engagement
48 downloads
2010 Encountering the God of Israel in the Messiah of Israel
Joshua Brumbach – Book Review – Boyarin, Daniel. Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Chrstianity
35 downloads
2010 Encountering the God of Israel in the Messiah of Israel
Howard Silverman – Book Summary- Incarnation: Myth or Fact by Oscar Skarsaune
42 downloads
2010 Encountering the God of Israel in the Messiah of Israel
Russell Resnik – Hesed and Hospitality: Embracing Our Place on the Margins
45 downloads
2008 Yeshua & Jewish Life
Mark Kinzer – Prayer in Yeshua, Prayer in Israel: The Shema in Messianic Perspective
78 downloads
2008 Yeshua & Jewish Life
Gavriel Gefen – Postcongregational Messianic Judaism: A call for an “insider” expression of Messianic Judaism
56 downloads
2008 Yeshua & Jewish Life
Charles Van Engen – Response to Mark S. Kinzer’s Post-Missionary Messianic Judaism: Redefining Christian Engagement with the Jewish People
41 downloads
2006 Postmissionary Messianic Judaism
H Bruce Stokes – Implications of Postmissionary Messianic Judaism on Christian Faith and Practice
32 downloads
2006 Postmissionary Messianic Judaism
Jason Sobel – A Sketch of a Better Tomorrow A Next Generation Response to Postmissionary Messianic Judaism
33 downloads
2006 Postmissionary Messianic Judaism
Stuart Dauermann – Toward Redefining Messianic Jewish Engagement With the Wider Jewish World: Reflections on Mark Kinzer’s “Post Missionary Messianic Judaism”
52 downloads
2006 Postmissionary Messianic Judaism
Kay Silberling – Jewish Life as Sacrament
50 downloads
2005 Embodying Redemption
Paul Saal – Toward a Messianic Jewish Moral Vision
32 downloads
2005 Embodying Redemption
Richard Nichol – Traveling Together on the Road to Redemption – The Messianic Jewish Contribution to a Revitalized World
38 downloads
2005 Embodying Redemption
Carl Kinbar – Communal Aspects of the Besorah
43 downloads
2004 Yeshua & Redemption
Jonathan Kaplan – A Divine Tapestry Reading the Siddur, Reading Redemption, Reading Yeshua
45 downloads
2004 Yeshua & Redemption
Elazar Brandt – Jewish Expectations of Redemption – Is There Room For Yeshua?
51 downloads
2004 Yeshua & Redemption
Michael Schiffman – Messianic Judaism and Jewish Tradition in the 21st Century: A Historical Perspective on “Oral Torah”
53 downloads
2003 Messianic Judaism & Jewish Tradition
Mark Kinzer – Messianic Judaism and Jewish Tradition in the 21st Century: A Biblical Defense of “Oral Torah”
62 downloads
2003 Messianic Judaism & Jewish Tradition
Dan Juster – The Value of Tradition
53 downloads
2003 Messianic Judaism & Jewish Tradition
Paul Saal – Origin and Destiny: Israel, Creation and the Messianic Jewish Canonical Narrative
42 downloads
2002 Messianic Jewish Canonical Narrative
Mark Kinzer – Beginning with the End
71 downloads
2002 Messianic Jewish Canonical Narrative
Stuart Dauermann – Making Israel’s Story Our Own
38 downloads
2002 Messianic Jewish Canonical Narrative
Paul Saal – Re-Imagining of the Canonical Text
75 downloads
2001 Messianic Jewish Hermeneutics
Mark Kinzer – Scripture As Inspired, Canonical Tradition
58 downloads
2001 Messianic Jewish Hermeneutics
Stuart Dauermann – Select Aspects of My Hermeneutical Journey
55 downloads
2001 Messianic Jewish Hermeneutics
Bruce Stokes — Establishing A Relational Community: A Theology of Community for Messianic Jews and Judeo-Christians
45 downloads
2011 Messianic Jewish Community
Mark Kinzer — Messianic Jewish Community: Standing and Serving as a Priestly Remnant
58 downloads
2011 Messianic Jewish Community
Jen Rosner — Messianic Jewish Life Together: Covenant, Commission and Cultural Brokerage
41 downloads
2012 Messianic Jewish Life Together
Paul Saal — Messianic Jewish Communities by Design: Open Doors and Reserved Seating
73 downloads
2012 Messianic Jewish Life Together
Russ Resnik — An Ethical Window: Framing a Messianic Jewish moral perspective
31 downloads
2013 Shaping a Messianic Jewish Moral Vision
Carl Kinbar — First steps in Messianic Jewish Ethics
565 downloads
2013 Shaping a Messianic Jewish Moral Vision
Elliot Klayman — Exploring our responsibility for earth’s resources
28 downloads
2014 Responsibility for the Created Order
Paul Saal — It’s Not Your Meat
31 downloads
2014 Responsibility for the Created Order
Vered Hillel — A Messianic Jewish View of Divorce
73 downloads
2015 Marriage & Divorce
Russ Resnik — The two shall become one flesh: The Beginning and End of Marriage
44 downloads
2015 Marriage & Divorce
Paul Saal — Queer for Jesus
123 downloads
2016 Intimacy & Sexuality
Stuart Dauermann and Ellen Goldsmith — Intimacy and Sexuality
60 downloads
2016 Intimacy & Sexuality
Isaac Roussel — Tefillah & Temperament
77 downloads
2017 “Lord, Teach us to Pray”
Karen Worstell — Prayer Engaging with the World
46 downloads
2017 “Lord, Teach us to Pray”
David Nichol — Prayer in Community: Identity Politics for Messianic Jews
65 downloads
2017 “Lord, Teach us to Pray”
Mark Kinzer — Pots, Pans, & Seraphim: Messianic Jewish Prayer in its Heavenly Context
68 downloads
2017 “Lord, Teach us to Pray”