Elder Moreh Dr. Jackson H. Snyder

Founder of the Yahad Movement

Greetings in our Father Yahweh and friend Yahshua the Anointed. 

I discovered the name of our Heavenly Father in the notes for Exodus 3 of the New English Bible.  His name is Yahweh.  I began teaching Yahweh's ways to my adult Sunday School class in 1978, and later in the churches I served, studying the rubrics of Torah and the historical origins of Christianity, and this in earnest by 1990 - 1998, at which time my wife Mignon and I began to observe the Torah and its festivals. 

My life has been a quest for as much knowledge as exists on the factual circumstances of our Savior's advent, his family, his students and his times.  Consequently, it has been my desire to put these "learnings" into "livings," and to teach the Nazorean (or Netzari) Way.

I received an Associates degree in Computer Programming and a Bachelor degree in Physiological Psychology from Indiana University (1987), with honors.  After four years of study at several universities of higher learning, including intensive training in Biblical languages, I received my Masters Degree in Divinity from Emory University, Atlanta (1994).  My major course of study was Intertestamental Literature - especially the Dead Sea Scrolls, Enoch, and the Jewish Pseudepigrapha, all of which I studied with an esteemed member of the Dead Sea Scrolls team. 

The Nag Hammadi Library (so-called Gnostic Gospels), the Oxyrhynchus Papyri and the Codex Sinaiticus New Testament did not escape my scrutiny; nor has the Clementine Literature, for which I have a special love.

Since then I have translated, recorded and published a large number of these esoteric manuscripts into True-Names English for the use of dedicated students of history and literature.

I completed a Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) at Baptist  Hospital in Pensacola, Florida (1995-6) and the entire Sacred Scriptures Course offered by Jacob O. Meyer.

I have served various United Methodist Conferences as worship director, organist, licensed preacher and pastor since 1978 and was ordained in that denomination in 1996. I have also been involved in the sacred as well as the newer music traditions of the Anglican and Episcopal churches. 

In 2004, the Wesley Synod honored me with the Doctorate in Humane Letters for my writings and benevolent services to overseas missions. 

In late 2005, my life started taking an exciting turn, and I am currently working in several mission fields, including the global realm of cyberspace.  I also do a lot of Bible teaching, especially in my specialties of Christian origins, Scriptural prophecy and Spiritual Gifts.  You can peruse this material at www.jacksonsnyder.org. 2005 and forward, I have endeavored, mostly at the request of others, to fashion The Yahad as a series of discipleship and covenant groups not unlike the yahadim of the Dead Sea sect, and the remarkably similar Wesley Classes of the 18th century.

Now headquartered in Vero Beach, Florida many from hereabouts have been baptized in the name of Yahshua-Yahweh as an outreach of the Yahad, which meets in the River Room of Tabernacles Ministries in Vero Beach.

www.jacksonsnyder.com

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