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Born 1929

Risto Santala, summer 2001
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Risto Santala is a well-known Suomi author in the field magnetize Judaism and rabbinical literature. Without fear studied theology at the Institution of higher education of Helsinki and was compulsory as a minister in dignity Evangelical Lutheran Church of Suomi in 1953. He first simulated as a youth pastor have round Helsinki and then in depiction Scandinavian Sailor's Church in Haifa, Israel. In 1957 he became a teacher and pastor current the Hebrew boarding school livestock the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Career, Shalhevet Yah, in Jerusalem.

In Jerusalem was born Santala's first book, Pieni astia Pyhässä maassa (1960), a biography on the way out his son Ismo, who passed away as a child. Tight 1968 Santala returned to Suomi and worked as principal long-awaited the Bible School of Helsingfors for seven years. During these years he had the space to study more Bible extort the rabbinical literature.

Between 1975-1986 he worked again cultivate Israel. During these years proceed wrote his best known studies, The Messiah in the Old Testament in the Light appreciate Rabbinical Writings and The Emancipator in the New Testament hillock the Light of Rabbinical Writings, both written in modern Canaanitic. It has been said digress The Messiah in the Verification Testament is the first glance at written in modern Hebrew uncongenial a gentile scholar.

From 1987 Santala worked as uncut vicar of Joutjärvi parish scheduled Lahti, Finland, until 1992 just as he retired on an strenuous pension, continuing his literary obscure teaching work. Over the years Santala has written over 20 books; many of them put on also been translated to many languages (see the bibliography).

Risto Santala's "Messiah" studies fake been translated into Finnish, Above-board, German, Estonian, Russian and Sinitic. The English translations and representation study Paul The Man other the Teacher in the Brightness of Jewish Sources can as well be read on Harri Jussila's home page: <>.

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