Avraham Gileadi is a Dutch-born American scholar specializing in the Hebrew language and analysis of the Book of Isaiah.
18 Facts About Avraham Gileadi
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Avraham Gileadi was born in 1940 in the Netherlands during World War II.
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In New Zealand, Avraham Gileadi went through a period of introspection, reevaluating his priorities and internalizing spiritual principles.
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Avraham Gileadi recognized what he believed to be "a partial fulfillment of prophecy in the modern State of Israel," which led to his desire to participate in it.
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In 1968, Avraham Gileadi left New Zealand to settle in Israel, where he lived five years.
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Avraham Gileadi took the book to be polite and studied it out of curiosity, which led to his conversion to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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Avraham Gileadi was baptized a member of the LDS Church in the Pool of Siloam, where the Bible records Jesus healing a blind man by having him wash his eyes in the pool.
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In 1973 Avraham Gileadi moved to the United States, where he married and raised a family of nine children.
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Avraham Gileadi sought out and studied with Professor R K Harrison, a renowned Old Testament scholar of Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, Canada, who was noted for his conservative theological position.
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Avraham Gileadi used lexical tools constantly to accurately convey every nuance of meaning in the original language, finishing his translation of Isaiah during his PhD program.
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Avraham Gileadi was hired by BYU to produce footnotes clarifying translation problems in the Hebrew prophets for the LDS edition of the Bible, and he revised the Hebrew translation of the Book of Mormon for the Church's Translation Division.
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In 1988 Avraham Gileadi published The Book of Isaiah: A New Translation with Interpretive Keys from the Book of Mormon, followed in 1991 by The Last Days: Types and Shadows from the Bible and the Book of Mormon.
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Avraham Gileadi was counselled by a regional authority of the church to discontinue giving lectures and seminars, which he did.
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On September 15,1993, Avraham Gileadi was excommunicated for apostasy from the LDS Church by his local stake presidency.
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On February 27,1996, Avraham Gileadi was re-baptized into the church, which is distinct from the reversal of church discipline on appeal.
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Avraham Gileadi moved to Sequim, Washington in 2013 in his retirement.
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Avraham Gileadi is the author of over ten books, a majority of them on the Book of Isaiah.
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Avraham Gileadi continues to research the writings of Isaiah and related scriptural texts.