“The Bible is many things, one being Israel’s family diary. Having long advocated for looking at Scripture with a narrative lens—a typically Jewish approach—I was immediately struck by Elisabeta Karp’s presentation. She brings a creative hermeneutical approach to biblical interpretation in her easy-to-read book. Those wishing to better grasp God’s word and connect the dots between the Old and New Testaments will find her work very helpful. Happy to commend.”

—Dr. Jeffrey Seif,

Executive Director, Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations

Professor of Bible and Jewish Studies, Christ for the Nations Institute

“It’s taken me far too long to see the Bible as God’s story. Elisabeta Karp is a writer and teacher who helps me see how God has woven both Old and New Testaments together, pointing us all toward Messiah Jesus. Elisabeta takes us on a profound journey of messianic prophecy, showing us how all of the Bible is purposeful, intentional, and woven together as God’s grand story.”

—Esther Fleece Allen,

International Speaker and Bestselling Author of No More Faking Fine: Ending the Pretending and Your New Name: Saying Goodbye to the Labels that Limit.

Senior Director of Communications for the Alliance for the Peace of Jerusalem and the Coalition Against Antisemitism

In our late modern era, people are looking for more than left-brain analytical, abstract thinking. They want more than lectures, outlines and bullet points. They are hungry for stories. The genius of the Bible is that it is the grand and true story of the world. Long after all the dissertations have been written, defended and collected dust on shelves, these stories will continue to resound, reverberate and ripple to the end of time.
With her master metaphor of “story ripples,” Elisabeta Karp has illuminated for us the inspired dynamic of Scripture, and the supernatural providence of God in “HisStory.” The Creator drops these stones—of the archetypal stories of real events recorded in the Hebrew Bible— into the deep waters of history. And when their waves and ripples hit you and me, we are immersed in the same primordial flow of living water that was God’s relational activity with his earliest people.
Karp helps us understand how the mother of all Bible studies on the Road to Emmaus must have transpired (Lk 24:27). How did Jesus explain how Moses wrote of him? Surely Messianic prophecy is not merely stated predictions in propositional form but rather are embedded in the stories of the Torah and the Hebrew Bible, as they pre-figure the Messiah
The church will not be successful in fulfilling her mandate to win the Jewish people to Messiah (Rom 11:11–14) by philosophical apologetics or systematic theological discourse. She will need re-tell their own stories showing how they inherently point to Messiah Jesus.
With fresh language and insights into the deep patterns of Story, Karp’s work demonstrates the unity of the Bible as one book, with waves going in one direction, toward the Messiah and the consummation of His Kingdom.
Whether we are communicating with younger late modern Westerners, the majority non-Western world, or the Jewish people, we need the biblical communication dynamics of Karp’s The Story Ripples of the Bible.

—William Bjoraker,

PhD and Co-author with Tom Steffen of THE RETURN OF ORAL HERMENEUTICS: AS GOOD TODAY AS IT WAS FOR THE HEBREW BIBLE AND FIRST-CENTURY CHRISTIANITY. Wipf & Stock. 2020.

“Elisabeta Karp transforms ancient tales into a captivating narrative, masterfully blending scholarly insight with engaging storytelling. A must-read that renews the timeless stories of the Bible for the modern reader. Dive deep, and see these narratives come alive.”

—Dr. Eli Lizorkin-Eyzenberg,

Head of School, Israel Institute of Biblical Studies

Founder, Israel Bible Center

“In the pass of Cirith Ungol, the wise hobbit Sam turns to his friend Frodo and reflects, “I wonder what sort of tale we’ve fallen into?” The question instantly clears the fog and reminds us, with shocking clarity, that each of us finds ourself in a story far more profound and magnificent than our own. It is within this heart-pounding premise that Elisabeta Karp shows us not only the Bible’s Grand Story, but the countless ripples that resonate throughout.
Do you remember, as a child, the first time you witnessed a stone falling into a still pond, how the ripple effect left you awestruck and mesmerized? This book will bless you with the same happy effect as the author unveils, with expert precision, meta-themes that have fallen from heaven into God’s Word, creating divinely inspired ripples that course through the scriptures. And the wonder of it all (as Karp will demonstrate) is that these ripples do not stop at the Bible’s shorelines; they burst forth from the pages into our hearts and minds, connecting us to scripture’s grand themes and thereby transforming us into the image of our great God and King, Jesus.
Having studied the Bible for nearly 50 years, I was shocked and delighted by all that I learned from The Story Ripples of the Bible. May you be similarly captivated, and may the ripple effect of your own devotion spill into the lives of all whom you encounter!”

—Scott Brown,

Missionary, Chosen People Ministries

The church will not be successful in fulfilling her mandate to win the Jewish people to Messiah (Rom 11:11–14) by philosophical apologetics or systematic theological discourse. She will need re-tell their own stories showing how they inherently point to Messiah Jesus.

With fresh language and insights into the deep patterns of Story, Karp’s work demonstrates the unity of the Bible as one book, with waves going in one direction, toward the Messiah and the consummation of His Kingdom.

Whether we are communicating with younger late modern Westerners, the majority non-Western world, or the Jewish people, we need the biblical communication dynamics of Karp’s The Story Ripples of the Bible.

“Elisabeta Karp transforms ancient tales into a captivating narrative, masterfully blending scholarly insight with engaging storytelling. A must-read that renews the timeless stories of the Bible for the modern reader. Dive deep, and see these narratives come alive.”

Having studied the Bible for nearly 50 years, I was shocked and delighted by all that I learned from The Story Ripples of the Bible. May you be similarly captivated, and may the ripple effect of your own devotion spill into the lives of all whom you encounter!”