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Born 1929

Risto Santala, summer 2001
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Risto Santala is a well-known Finnish author in the field of Judaism and rabbinical literature.

He studied theology at the University of Helsinki and was ordained as a minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland in 1953. He first worked as a youth pastor in Helsinki and then in the Scandinavian Sailor's Church in Haifa, Israel.

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In 1957 he became a teacher and pastor in the Hebrew boarding school of the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission, Shalhevet Yah, in Jerusalem.

In Jerusalem was born Santala's first book, Pieni astia Pyhässä maassa (1960), a biography of his son Ismo, who passed away as a child.

In 1968 Santala returned to Finland and worked as principal of the Bible School of Helsinki for seven years. During these years he had the opportunity to study more Bible and the rabbinical literature.

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