Making Israel’s Story Our Own: Toward a Messianic Jewish Canonical Narrative

Making Israel’s Story Our Own: Toward a Messianic Jewish Canonical Narrative Stuart Dauermann, PhD The Importance of Narrative Communal narrative is indispensable and central to community formation, community identity, community survival, and community life. It is an issue that could mean everything to the future of Messianic Judaism. Indeed, I would say that our narrative deeply shapes not only what we do, and how we think: it actually shapes who we are and what we become. Perhaps a microcosmic illustration will help to bring home the importance of this issue. An Il