Betrayed! [Paperback]

Stan Telchin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1982

Betrayed is the sensitive account of a loving Jewish family caught on divergent prongs of a tragic and historical conflict when the daughter reveals that she has come to believe in Jesus. It is the story of an unusual kind of "healing.

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From the Back Cover

That was the stunned reaction of Stan Telchin, a successful Jewish businessman, when his daughter said she had accepted Jesus as her Messiah. Her words were a bombshell. The family, their race, their heritage--everything that Stan treasured--felt shattered in an instant. With grim determination he set out to prove to his daughter just how wrong she was . . . with astonishing results. A true and powerful story that rings with the excitement of prophecy being fulfilled before our own eyes. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Stan Telchin is a Messianic Jew who proclaims Jesus as Messiah in the U.S. and around the world--now under the umbrella of Jews for Jesus. He pastored a nondenominational fellowship in suburban Washington DC for fourteen years. He is the author of Abandoned and Messianic Judaism Is Not Christianity. He and his wife, Elaine, live in Sarasota, Florida. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Chosen (October 1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0800790685
• ISBN-13: 978-0800790684
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,279,699 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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46 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An extremely moving, absorbing and powerful true story., September 29, 2002

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M. D Roberts (Gwent, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Betrayed! (Paperback)

An extremely moving, absorbing and powerful true story.

Stan Telchin in answering a telephone call from his daughter Judy received the worst possible message that a Jewish father could hear from his beloved daughter. The words that revealed that she had accepted Jesus as the Messiah.

To his eternal credit, Stan Telchin did not choose the path of so many in isolating and disowning his daughter. Instead he chose the path of love and tried to fully investigate her beliefs with a clear goal of trying to systematically disprove any element of truth that Judy might have in believing Jesus to be the Jewish Messiah.

Stan's studies were in depth and lengthy. The story follows him in his goal and surrounds an extremely dramatic family story in seeking out the very roots and foundations of their Jewish faith.

Stan decided to ask himself a number of questions along his journey, such as `can a Jew accept Jesus as the Messiah and remain a Jew'.

Five other basic questions formed the basis of his enquiries;-
1) Do I believe that God really exists ?
2) Do I believe that the Jewish Bible (The Tenach) is the divinely inspired word of God ?
3) Does this Bible prophesy about a coming Messiah ?
4) Is Jesus the Messiah ?
5) If he is, what does that do to me ?

Follow Stan Telchin as he pours over the Scriptures and the history of the Jewish people and their relationship with Christians through the ages. See how he comes to terms with the hostility of many elements of the so-called Christian church, the anti-Semitism emanating from so many, and his arrival at the Truth.

Stan, despite being the ultimate critic and with such a heart-felt agenda to restore his Jewish daughter from Christianity, finds that he too can only arrive at one decision. That being that all the Scriptures and all the prophesies can only prove one thing...Jesus is in fact who He says He is...the Messiah.

Stan's acceptance of this fact and the birth of his own Christian/Messianic faith (or however you wish to describe it) is treated with hostility by the vast majority of his Jewish `friends' and he finds isolation and hatred amongst those who once accepted him with open arms.

This is an enthralling story. Beautifully written and can be read in one day. Do yourself a favour and get this book, irrespective of your religion or faith. Everyone could do with studying the examples of those described herein. Best wishes.

40 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Introduction to a Jewish Perspective on Jesus, April 17, 2000

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Derek Leman (Snellville, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Betrayed! (Paperback)

Some religious Jewish people will be offended by this book and that cannot be helped. Any book which presents a controversial topic is going to get slammed. But the fact is, and Stan presents it very well and very readably, there is a strong case to be made for the Messiahship of Jesus. Stan shows how one Jewish person, with a good Jewish education and strong ties to the Jewish community, looked at the evidence and was convinced. Those who do not find the evidence presented by Stan convincing can nonetheless see his sincerity throughout. With a Masters degree in Hebrew Bible, I feel qualified to say that the passages from the Hebrew Bible that Stan discusses are almost all translated very well and Stan's interpretation is sound in nearly every instance. I have seen this book change the lives of Christians and Jews alike and have given away dozens of copies myself.

23 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!, July 19, 2000

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Derek Viljoen - See all my reviews

This review is from: Betrayed! (Paperback)

Despite the negative reviews from some readers, the reasons they give are subjective. (i.e. - they disagree with Mr. Telchin's conclusions). Nevertheless, this is an excellent book on the topic at hand (one family's search for the Messiah). Saying you disagree with their conclusions doesn't make this a bad book, or even a dangerous one.

On the contrary. I found the level of research done by Mr. Telchin extraordinary. The accusations of misinterpretation notwithstanding, he addresses a lot of scriptures which not a few people (Jews included) have accepted as speaking of the Messiah, and gives "his" reasons for believing that they point to the historical Jesus.

I found it fascinating, and illuminating from a Jewish perspective of Jesus' Messianic claims.