William Bjoraker

William (Bill) Bjoraker is a specialist in Jewish studies. He and his wife Diana have been engaging the Jewish world for nearly 40 years. They met and married in Israel, serving eight years in the 1980s in pastoral and teaching ministries at Beit Immanuel in Tel Aviv. He became fluent in modern Hebrew while living in Israel.

Bill holds a Ph.D. from Fuller Theological Seminary’s School of Intercultural Studies. He teaches graduate/seminary courses in Messianic Jewish studies and the Hebrew Bible.

He has taught at the King’s University Messianic Jewish Studies Program, Dallas, TX, at Denver Seminary, and for the Messianic Jewish Bible Institute’s Kadima Program, training leaders of the Lemba Jewish believers’ movement in Zimbabwe and is an affiliate professor at William Carey International University.

He engages learners in the power of storytelling and is co-author, with Tom Steffen, of "The Return to Oral Hermeneutics: As Good Today as It Was for the Hebrew Bible and First Century Christianity" (Wipf & Stock: 2020). Bill has been a storytelling

instructor for SimplytheStory.org in Jewish ministry venues and in academia since 2008.

Bill founded Operation Ezekiel, Inc., a nonprofit outreach, publishing, and teaching service to Jewish people and the church at large.

He and his wife Diana enjoy the California sunshine and being with their three adult children.