Currently, I am juggling three books, two of which are Stephen Spykerman’s Christians and Jews; The Two Faces of Israel and Asher Intrater’s Who Ate Lunch With Abraham?. Judging from the high ratings on Amazon, I am not the only person who is really enjoying these.
Intrater’s book primarily deals with digging deeper into the “appearances of God in the form of a Man in the Hebrew Scriptures,” a subject that has fascinated me as I have studied the Angel of the Lord appearances. Spykerman’s book explores the place of parts of Christendom among Ephraim/the House of Israel. Where the two books suddenly came together was on page 100 of Spykerman’s offer when he quotes Genesis 48:14-16,
14 But Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it on the head of Ephraim, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, [a]crossing his hands, [b]although Manasseh was the firstborn. 15 He blessed Joseph, and said,
11:3 Restoration 