Aaron Bernstein's Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ is a historical survey of Jewish converts to Christianity from the apostolic age through the patristic and Talmudic periods to Eastern, Western, and Protestant churches. Published in 1909 as a companion reference to the London Society's centenary. It offers an account of mission history and religious transition for readers interested in Jewish-Christian relations.
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Opening of the book
Transcriber's Note: This Table of Contents was not present in the original text. CONTENTS CHAPTER I. Apostolic Period. 9 CHAPTER II. Sub-Apostolic or Patristic Period. 14 CHAPTER III. The Period of the Publication of The Talmud. 17 CHAPTER IV. Jewish Converts in the Eastern Church. 24 CHAPTER V. Jewish Converts in the Western Church. 27 ADDENDA Converts in the "Domus Conversorum" in London. 69 PART II CHAPTER VI. Converts in the Protestant Churches. 73 SOME JEWISH WITNESSES
FOR CHRIST. BY Rev. A. BERNSTEIN, B.D. Price One Shilling and Sixpence. PRINTED AT THE OPERATIVE JEWISH CONVERTS' INSTITUTION, Palestine House, Bodney Road, London, N.E. 1909. PREFACE. This book has grown very considerably in the making, and what was expected to form a comparatively small pamphlet has become quite a substantial volume. It is probable that if still more time could have been spent upon it, its size would have been greatly increased, for the fact of the matter is that there have been and are many more Jewish witnesses for Christ than can readily be enumerated. But the author has all along been very desirous that his work should appear in the Centenary Year of the London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews, the same year which has seen the production of the History of that Society written by its gifted and deeply lamented Secretary, the late Rev. W. T. Gidney. The two books are companion works of reference, and in relation to Jewish missions they are both of inestimable value. In some degree the one supplements the other, because the biographies indicate many of the results of the various
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