tional Honorary Scholastic Fratern ity and of the National History Fraternity, Phi Alpha Theta. He is also a member of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis, and of the American Schools of Oriental Research. He is a Fellow of the Philosophical Society of Great Britain and is listed in Who’s Who in the Clergy and in Who’s Who in the Americas. Dr. Feinberg is p r e s i d e n t of Emeth ( “ Truth” ) Publications, Inc. All the profit from his books goes into that organization. Before coming to Talbot Semi nary, Dr. Feinberg taught church history, Semitics and Old Testa ment at Dallas Theological Semi nary, pastored churches in Texas, Tennessee and California and was professor of Old Testament at the L o s A n g e l e s Bible Theological Seminary. He was for five years Jewish minister of the Church of the Open Door, Los Angeles. His forte is teaching and he loves the give-and-take of the classroom. He sometimes paces the entire cir cumference of a room with his hands behind his back, gesticulating now and then during his rapid-fire lecture. He is impatient with ques tions that are out of order, hut full of praise for pertinent ones on the subject under consideration. Some students say they never relax a moment in his classes. One day while lecturing a class in Hebrew grammar some plumb ers three stories below kept pound ing on pipes that ran up through the classroom. Dr. Feinberg opened a window and called down, “W ill you stop pounding on those pipes? I want to make some noise of my own!” The pounding ceased. When students complain of diffi culty with the Hebrew language he says good naturedlv, “Don’t look at me, I didn’t write it!” Other
downtown campus he studies and writes in a score of languages, hur ries to and from seminary classes with a briefcase packed with books, travels by plane approximately 25,000 miles a year on speaking engagements across America and finds time to tape weekly broadcasts for two Southern California radio stations and occasionally one for a station in Oregon. He edits the Tal bot Seminary Bulletin, is currently preparing an extended study on the Book of Isaiah and a manuscript giving salient facts about each book of the Bible for young Christians. Dr. Feinberg is on the Scofield Ref erence Bible Revision Committee and is contributing to a new dic tionary of theology and exegetical studies on Nahum for a new com mentary on the Bible. Besides graduating with honors from the Hebrew Institute and the University of Pittsburgh, Feinberg earned his Th.B., Th.M. and Th.D. from Dallas Theological Seminary (Tex.) — the latter degree with the first summa cum laude ever granted by Dallas in its history — an A.M. in Old Testament frotti the Southern Methodist U n iv e r s i t y and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins in archaeology and Semitic languages. He is a member of Eumatheia, Na-
A i i during that long autumn night in 1930, Charles Lee Feinberg, 21, lay wide awake on his bed in his father’s home in Pittsburgh, Pa., considering the claims of Jesus Christ. Feinberg had been con firmed in a synagogue at 13, had graduated with honors from the Hebrew Institute and the Univer sity of Pittsburgh, and was well on his way to the rabbinate. The Gen tile’s Jesus could not be mentioned in his orthodox Jewish household because of the commandment to take the Name of no “ false god” upon the bps. Yet he could not escape the penetrating questions of a zealous Christian neighbor lady which had fallen on his ear that day. “ W hy do you have no more prophets?” she asked, . and no more priests? How will you recog nize the Messiah when He comes?” Charles tossed from side to side in his bed and struggled with his problem. “ Oh God!” he cried, “ if this Jesus is the Messiah — the promise of my people— reveal it to me and I’ll believe Him now!” The Steel City clock struck five a.m. Charles stopped churning the sheets and lay still. Immediately he was soothed by a deep-seated, per manent conviction of having peace with God through the Lord Jesus Christ and fell soundly asleep. Charles Feinberg could no longer tolerate the observance of cere monies required of him and subse quently left home, f o r s o o k th e rabbinate and threw himself into the Christian ministry. Today he is director of Talbot Theological Seminary, Los Angeles, (a school of the Bible Institute of Los An geles) and one of the youngest biblical scholars in the field of Old Testament studies. In his neat, colorfully-curtained office on the sixth floor of Biola’s
Feinberg on Prophecy For nearly six months KB editors have been laying the groundwork for a new section in the magazine on prophecy. Editing this prophetic section will be Dr. Charles L. Feinberg. Watch for it starting in September. As a forerunner of this important new fea ture our cover story for this month is also on prophecy. W e believe you’ll profit from Merv Rosell’s timely article.
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