Gershon is a historian of the modern movement of Jewish Yeshua-believers (JYB). His Ph.D. dissertation on “Messianic Jews in Eretz Israel (1917-1967): Trends and Changes in Shaping Self-Identity” was written at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has written and taught extensively on JYB. His publications focus on the linkage between history, creeds, hermeneutics, symbolism and sociology.
Together with his wife, Sara, Dr. Nerel revised the 8th edition of the Franz Delitzsch Hebrew New Testament – named now the “Negev Version” (Beer-Sheva 2003). He also explores the history of the various Hebrew translations of the New Testament, particularly in the State of Israel. He is convinced that originally the Gospels were written in Hebrew.
During the Yom Kippur War (1973) Gershon served in the IDF as a combat medic near the Suez Canal. More than once throughout his long military service, and decades later, he has experienced the miraculous guidance of the Lord Yeshua. He also served as the ‘Israel Secretary’ of the International Messianic Jewish Alliance (1993-2001).
Gershon became a believer in Messiah Yeshua in the late 1960s in Beer-Sheva when only few Jews followed the Lord in the country. Since 1987 he resides at Yad Hashmona, a cooperative Messianic village (Moshav) near Jerusalem where he is establishing a new archive collecting and preserving Messianic Jewish documents, periodicals, artifacts etc.
He has six energetic children and even more energetic six enjoyable grandchildren.
The Lord Yeshua unequivocally commands his disciples to forgive those who have sinned against them.
In mid-October, an extraordinary international conference took place in Jerusalem, discussing the outbreak of the Protestant Reformation.
David Flusser (1917-2000), Professor of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, was born a century ago.
The most important event in Jewish studies worldwide takes place every four years at the Mt. Scopus Campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The ultimate teaching of the Lord Yeshua is manifest in the Book of Revelation, also known as the Apocalypse.
August 1897, the First Zionist Congress convened in Basel, Switzerland, with delegates from seventeen Jewish communities worldwide.
Following the Six Day War in 1967, all of Jerusalem became the sovereign capital of the State of Israel.
Nonconformist Jewish believers in Yeshua (JBY), particularly Hebrew speakers in Israel, progressively reevaluate the theological legacy of Protestantism.
Many imagine that modern Jewish believers in Yeshua (JBY) who practice a Jewish lifestyle and promote unconventional biblical interpretations are being provocative and anachronistic.
Christian theological documents representing most historic churches commonly declare that “God was crucified” or that “God died on the cross.”
