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Eliyahu (“Eli”) Lizorkin-Eyzenberg is a Russian-American-Israeli Christian author, educator, and scholar in the Jewish context and culture of the New Testament. He serves as head of school at Israel Institute of Biblical Studies (part of eTeacher Group. He is also the founder of Israel Bible Center, an Israeli educational institution.

Lizorkin-Eyzenberg was involved in establishing the Journal of the Jesus Movement in its Jewish Setting, a peer-reviewed journal in Jewish-Christian studies.

He holds an M.Div. degree in Christian Theology from Reformed Theological Seminary (2000), an M.Phil. degree in Bible Interpretation (2008), and a Ph.D. in Ancient Cultures from Stellenbosch University (2011). Additional studies include doctoral and postdoctoral studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Leiden University, Princeton Theological Seminary and Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Outside of his expertise in the ancient languages (Biblical Hebrew, Koine Greek, Syriac, and Old Church Slavonic), he has a command of three other modern languages (English, Russian and Hebrew).

Selected Works

 * 2012 Aphrahat’s Demonstrations: A Conversation with the Jews of Mesopotamia
 * 2015 The Jewish Gospel of John: Discovering Jesus, King of All Israel
 * 2015 The Jewish Sabbath: From the Maccabees to Qumran
 * 2015 Semitic Christianity: St. Aphrahat & The Sages of Babylonian Talmud
 * 2017 Jewish Insights into Scripture
 * 2019 The Hidden Story of Jacob: What We Can See in Hebrew That We Cannot See in English
 * 2019 Becoming Israel: Rethinking the Genesis Stories from the Original Hebrew
 * 2019 The Jewish Book of 1 Enoch with Illustrations
 * 2019 The Samaritan Woman Reconsidered
 * 2020 The Jewish Apostle Paul: Rethinking One of the Greatest Jews that Ever Lived
 * 2020 40 Days of Hebrew Devotions
 * 2020 The Hebrew Story of Joseph: Discovering the Nuance and Emotion of the Hebrew Bible
 * 2021 Inspiration Insights About Life