Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ.

Assembled from many lives across many countries and centuries, this is a book of witnesses, a gathering of biographies devoted to Jewish men and women who embraced the Christian faith and the stories of how they came to it.

What it's about

The book collects short biographical notices of a great many individuals of Jewish origin who converted to Christianity, ranging across different eras and lands. Written from a Christian and missionary standpoint, it records their names, circumstances and, where known, the courses of their lives, presenting them as testimonies to the faith the author sought to commend.

Themes

Conversion and religious testimony are the central concerns, together with the encounter between Judaism and Christianity as the book's tradition understood it. It reflects the aims and assumptions of the Christian missionary movement of its time, and a modern reader will approach it with awareness of that particular perspective and the sensitivities surrounding it.

Why it still matters

As a historical document, the book preserves a record of attitudes, biographies and missionary activity that illuminate the religious history of its period and the long, complicated relationship between the two faiths. It is of interest to students of religious history and of Jewish-Christian relations, read as a source that reveals as much about its authors and their era as about its subjects.

Who it's for

For readers of religious history and biography, for students of Jewish-Christian relations and the missionary movement, and for those researching the assumptions and activities of nineteenth and early twentieth-century Christianity.