Appendix E — Recommended Reading

Essential Preparation

• Answering Jewish Objections to Jesus, Volumes 1–5 — Michael L. Brown. The definitive apologetic resource.
• Betrayed! — Stan Telchin. Most accessible conversion account for a Jewish audience.
• Our Hands Are Stained with Blood — Michael Brown. History of Christian antisemitism. Read before any conversation.
• Night — Elie Wiesel. Read before any conversation about the Holocaust.
• Man's Search for Meaning — Viktor Frankl. Essential context.
• Messianic Christology — Arnold Fruchtenbaum. The Messianic prophecies from a Jewish-Christian scholar.
• The Messiah Texts — Raphael Patai. A Jewish scholar's collection of Messianic texts from rabbinic literature.

For Deeper Preparation

• To the Jew First — Darrell Bock and Mitch Glaser, eds. Essays on the theology and practice of Jewish witness.
• Israel, the Church, and the Last Days — Dan Juster and Keith Intrater. Eschatology and the Jewish people.
• The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah — Alfred Edersheim. Jewish background of the New Testament.
• The Jewish Annotated New Testament — Levine and Brettler, eds. Jewish scholars on the New Testament. Read to understand how Jewish scholars read your text.