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Arnold Fruchtenbaum

Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum (Th.M - Dallas, Ph.D - New York University) is the founder and director of Ariel Ministries, an organization dedicated to evangelizing Jews to believe in Jesus as the Messiah.

Arnold Fruchtenbaum - Biography

Arnold was born in 1943 in Siberia, Russia. The family escaped to Germany in 1947 after his father had been accused of being a Nazi spy. He was taught as an Orthodox Jew by his father before emigrating to the United States in 1951. At age 13, Fruchtenbaum came to believe that Jesus was the Messiah. His father opposed this and forbade him to read the Bible, attend meetings, or otherwise meet with Jewish Christians. The family moved to Los Angeles in 1958.

After being forced to leave the family home, in 1962 he began college education at Shelton College in New Jersey. He moved to Cedarville College in Ohio, where he graduated with a BA degree in Hebrew and Greek in 1966.

Arnold married in 1968 to Mary Ann Morrow, a graduate of Gordon College in Massachusetts. Then in 1971 he earned his Master of Theology degree from Dallas. Next they moved to Israel and worked with the church there, causing such a stir that the religious authorities eventually made their stay untenable.

Moving back to New Jersey lead to the founding of Ariel Ministries in December 1977. Arnold is the founding director of the organisation and speaks about Christianity and Messianic Judaism.

He travels widely in Europe, Israel and the United States, and further afield such as to Australia and New Zealand.

Arnold Fruchtenbaum - Bibliography

Arnold Fruchtenbaum - Individual Titles

• Jewishness and Hebrew Christianity - (1971)
• Hebrew Christianity: Its Theology, History & Philosophy - (1974)
• Jesus was a Jew - (1981)
• Biblical Lovemaking: A Study of the Song of Solomon - (1983)
• Footsteps of the Messiah: A Study of the Sequence of Prophetic Events - (1983)
• Israelology: The Missing Link in Systematic Theology - (1989)
• A Passover Haggadah For Jewish Believers - (1991)
• Messianic Christology - (1998)
• A Study Guide Of Israel: Historical & Geographical - (1999)
• Footsteps of the Messiah: A Study of the Sequence of Prophetic Events (Revised Edition) - (2003)
• How Jewish Is Christianity? (with others) - (2003)

Arnold Fruchtenbaum - Systematic theology correspondence courses

• Bibliology: The Doctrine of the Scriptures
• Theology Proper: The Doctrine of God
• Christology: The Doctrine of the Son
• Pneumatology: The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit
• Soteriology: The Doctrine of Salvation
• Anthrolology: The Doctrine of Man & Hamatiology: The Doctrine of Sin
• Angelology: The Doctrine of Angels (Elect and Fallen)

Arnold Fruchtenbaum - Bible commentary series

• The Messianic Jewish Epistles - Hebrews, James, I Peter, II Peter, Jude - (2004)

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