Derek Leman and his wife Linda live in the Atlanta area with their eight children. Derek is the author of such books as Feast by LifeWay and The World to Come by Lederer.
The Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. Jewish and Christian tradition.
Favorite Books
The Hebrew Bible
The New Testament
Lord of the Rings
The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis
The New Testament and the People of God, N.T. Wright
Leviticus (Anchor Series), Jacob Milgrom
Favorite Authors
FICTION
Harlan Coben
NON-FICTION
Too many to name in Biblical studies and theology, but N.T. Wright stands out and John Walton.
What I'm Reading
The Face of Old Testament Studies
Ruth (Artscroll Mesorah Series)
Shavuos (Artscroll Mesorah Series)
The Shavuot Anthology, Philip Goodman
Rich Nichol, the Director of the Rabbinical Ordination Institute at MJTI (mjti.com) says, “For final redemption to occur, the Church and the Jewish people must come together as never before.”Stuart Dauermann, the Senior Scholar at MJTI just released a booklet this year called Christians and Jews Together.Of course, what they are both talking about is the happy realization by Jews that ...
The following is an excerpt from my 2008 book,Feast, available at lifeway.com:…………………….A Pilgrim FeastIn the really old days, before there was a temple, there was only a tent called the tabernacle. It moved from place to place, eventually resting for a long time in central Israel in a settlement called Shiloh. Later, David brought it to Jerusalem, and then Solomon replaced the ...
The Torah commands a positive mitzvah that we make known to our offspring from generation to generation all that transpired there [Mt. Sinai], both visually and audibly. There is a very great purpose to this mitzvah. –Maimonides You will not exactly find a verse in the Bible which says, “On Shavuot (Pentecost), God appeared to Israel at Mt. Sinai and spoke the Ten Words.” The belief ...