To help you to grow in your understanding of the Hebrew of roots of the Christian faith, here is Natan Lawrence’s recommended reading list:
New to the Hebrew Roots Movement Top Ten List
- Israel Redeemed by Batya Wootten
- Israel’s Feasts and Their Fullness by Batya Wootten
- Matthew Henry Commentary on the Torah
- The Complete Jewish Bible by David Stern
- Complete Jewish NT Commentary by David Stern
- The Stone Edition Chumash
- Our Father Abraham by Marvin Wilson
- Strong’s Concordance
- Any good Bible dictionary
- Naves Topical Bible
Basics Bible Study Tools
- Strong’s Concordance
- Any good Bible dictionary
- Naves Topical Bible
- Torah Study Bibles
- The ArtScroll Stone Edition Chumash
- The Gutnick Editon Chumash
Bibles
- The Complete Jewish Bible
- The Dead Seas Scroll Bible
- The Septuagint (any version)
- The Interlinear Bible—Hebrew Greek English by Jay P. Green Sr.
Basics Bible Study Tools (Going Deeper)
- The Englishman’s Hebrew Concordance of the OT
- The Englishman’s Hebrew Greek of the NT
- Thayer’s Greek-English Lexicon of the NT
- Gesinius’ Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon of the OT
Understanding First Century Christianity
- The Complete Works of Josephus (any version)
- The Temple by Alfred Edersheim
- The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah by Alfred Edersheim
- Sketches of Jewish Life by Alfred Edersheim
Early Church History
- Ecclesiastical History by Eusebius
- Beyond Acts by Paul R. Finch
- Early Church History (Going Deeper)
- Ante-Nicene Church Fathers (10 volumes covering up to the Council of Nicea in 323 AD)
- History of the Christian Church by Philip Schaff (8 volumes covering up to the Protestant Reformation)
- History of Christianity by Kenneth Scott Latourette (2 volumes covering up to the present time)
The Sabbath
- From Sabbath to Sunday by Samuele Bacchiocchi
Basic Torah Studies
- Gleanings in Genesis by Arthur W. Pink
- Gleanings in Exodus by Arthur W. Pink
- The Law of the Offerings by Andrew Jukes
Torah Apologetics
- Torah Rediscovered by Ariel and D’vorah Berkowitz
Studies About Yeshua
- Jesus the Jewish Theologian by Brad Young
- Yeshua—A Guide to the Real Jesus and the Original Church by Ron Moseley
- The Miracle of the Scarlet Thread by Richard Booker
- The Hebrew Yeshua Vs. the Greek Jesus by Nehemia Gordon
- More Than a Carpenter by Josh McDowell
- Understanding the Difficult Words of Jesus by David Biven and Roy Blizzard, Jr.
- What the Rabbis Now About the Messiah by Rachmiel Frydland
- The Messiah in the Old Testament in the Light of Rabbinical Writings by Risto Santala
Apologetics on Yeshua
Evidence That Demands a Verdict by Josh McDowell
Understanding Paul
- It Is Often Said (multiple volumes) by Tim Hegg
- The Letter Writer by Tim Hegg
- The Jewish Roots of Romans by Joseph Shulam
- Paul the Jewish Theologian by Brad Young
- The Jewish NT Commentary by David Stern
Happy reading!