"Are you ready to have your mind explode and your heart expand at the same time? Beyond education , in reading Rediscovering Israel you will have an encounter . I cannot herald enough Kristi McLelland's deep, contagious passion for the Scriptures and her rich Middle Eastern lens into the treasure of God's Word from beginning to end. She has unearthed and strung together a gorgeous, antique necklace of appetizing pearls (to use her metaphor) for us to feast upon. Weaving stories and history alongside archaeology, Kristi disciples us from anthropocentrism to Theocentrism: the world, the Plan, does not revolve around me , but around God . Rediscovering Israel will not leave you a spectator . It will stretch you to leave your preconceived intellectual borders, and it will shift you. "Jesus came to save us from our sins in order to send us into the world." A wholesome education through a Hebraic prism, yes; and even greater, a refreshing encounter with the Living God.

" --Ken Alpren, Sr. Rabbi and founder of Kol Dodi, Nashville, TN.