Is Twelve Tribe Torah all about the Jewish view of Jesus?
No, it’s not that at all. It is about reclaiming of periods of our Jewish history that we do not recognize as being relevant to the Jewish experience. It provides historical perspectives that illuminate the mission of Jewish people, a mission that is embodied in the Torah. This is crucial not only for a Jewish self-understanding but is crucial for Christians to understand the Torah that Jesus never rejected. Jesus happens to be at the center of an historical period when Hellenistic Judaism began and flourished. In fact, Jesus was, to the embarrassment of perhaps both Jews and Christians, a very Jewish Jew! Another embarrassing fact is that there were three Jewish Gospels that were destroyed. History and theology go together. Reclamation of those three Jewish Gospels is an imperative beyond all others. Twelve Tribe Torah seeks to reclaim the literature of the Hellenistic Jewish community. Members of that community wrote the Gospels. Paul was a Hebrew (codeword for Hellenistic Jew). That
