Education:
2004-2009 Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus Jerusalem, Israel
Ph.D.
Topic: “Structure, Source and Composition of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs”
Advisor: Prof. Michael Stone
2011-2014 Messianic Jewish Theological Institute USA
Master of Arts in Messianic Jewish Theology
1999-2003 Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus Jerusalem, Israel
Master of Arts in Comparative Religions
“Naphtali as a Proto-Joseph in the Testament of Naphtali in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs”
Advisor: Prof. Michael Stone
1996 - 1999 University of the Holy Land Jerusalem, Israel
Master of Arts in New Testament and the Backgrounds to Early Christianity
“The Use of Greek by Jews in Eretz Israel During the Second Temple Period”
Advisor: Dr. Stephen Pfann
1994 - 1996 ICI University Dallas, Texas
Bachelor of Arts in Bible and Theology
Publications:
"Why Not Naphtali." Things Revealed (FS in honor of M.E. Stone). Leiden: Brill, 2004, 279-288.
“Naphtali a Proto-Joseph in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs,” JSP 16, 3 (2007), 171-201.
Noah and His Books. M.E. Stone, V. Hillel and A. Amihai, eds. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2010.
"Demonstrable Instances of the Use of Sources in the Pseudepigrapha." Dead Sea Scrolls. Texts and Context. Leiden: Brill, 2010, 325-338.
With M.E. Stone, Armenian Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs: Editio Minor and Commentary. Hebrew University Armenian Studies 9. Leuven: Peeters, 2012.
“Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs.” Encyclopedia of Ancient History, Roger Bagnall, Kai Brodersen, Craige Champion, Andrew Erskine and Sabine Huebner, eds. Wiley-Blackwell, Online, Wiley Online Library, 2012.
Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs: Source, Structure and Composition. Lewiston, NY and Queenston, On.: Edwin Mellon Press, 2013.
Text Manager, Tree of Life Tanakh: Ketuvim. Messianic Jewish Family Bible, 2014.
“To Do or Not to Do: Were Early Jewish Believers in Jesus Torah Observant.” Mishkan, Online publication, Summer 2015 (http://caspari.com/new/about/what-is-caspari-center).
“A Messianic-Jewish View of Divorce and Remarriage.” Kesher 29, 2015.
“Aramaic Levi Document.” Companion to the Dead Sea Scrolls, T&T Clark, Forthcoming Nov. 2016.
“Messianism in Jewish Literature Beyond the Bible,” Kesher 30, in memory of Dr. Ellen Goldsmith, 2017.
“Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs” in Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism, T&T Clark, 2017.
“Testaments” in Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism, T&T Clark, 2017.
“The Gospel of Mark and the Parables of Enoch: Siblings, Acquaintances or No Relation”. Conference Proceedings 7th Enoch Seminar, Camaldoli, 2013, 2016.
Congregational and Organizational Development
Co-founder and leader of Aleinu, a Messianic Jewish organization devoted to Jewish life renewed in Yeshua. We seek to integrate Yeshua into traditional Jewish forms and modern day practices, making the radical and scandalous claim that Yeshua is the true center of Jewish life, just as Israel constitutes the true center of Yeshua’s ecclesia. We endeavor to work hand-in-hand with others to: 1) cultivate Messianic Judaism from within the Jewish People in respectful conversation with Christianity; 2) establish the bi-lateral ecclesia as a tangible prolepsis of the eschaton; and 3) bridge the gap between the American and Israeli Messianic Jewish communities. I am currently on the leadership team of Adonai Shama in Israel.
On the MJRC:
All streams of Judaism have standardized observances that define them and in order for Messianic Judaism to be considered “Judaism” we too must have our own self-definition, therefore standardized observances.
Messianic Jewish leaders should join the MJRC because it is an opportunity to discuss and reason together about some of the challenges facing all Rabbis and congregations, as well as to have a voice and contribution in the development of standardizing observances, which in turn will help build a more unified and mature Messianic Judaism.