Product Description

Why is this Bible different from all other Bibles?
Because it is the only English version of the Bible fully Jewish in style and presentation that includes both the Tanakh (Old Testament) and the B'rit Hadashah (New Covenant, New Testament). Even its title, Complete Jewish Bible, challenges both Jews and Christians to see that the whole Bible is Jewish, the B'rit Hadashah as well as the Tanakh. Jews are challenged by the implication that without it the Tanakh is an incomplete Bible. Christians are challenged with the fact that they are joined to the Jewish people through faith in the Jewish Messiah, Yeshua (Jesus)—so that because Christianity can be rightly understood only from a Jewish perspective, anti-Semitism is condemned absolutely and forever. In short, the Complete Jewish Bible restores the Jewish unity of the Bible. Also for the first time the information needed for the synagogue readings from the Torah and the Prophets is completely integrated with similar use of the B'rit Hadashah.

Features

• Corrects misinterpretations in the New Testament resulting from anti-Jewish theological bias
• Offers the original Hebrew names for people, places, and concepts, using easy-to-read English transliterations
• Focuses on Messianic prophecy
• Translation based on:
• Masoretic text for Tanakh (Old Testament)
• United Bible Societies (UBS) The Greek New Testament 3rd Edition for B'rit Hadashah (New Testament)
• Also includes:
• A comprehensive introduction
• Books of the Tanakh (Old Testament) listed in Jewish order, Christian order and alphabetical order
• Explanatory glossary with pronunciation for Hebrew names and terms used
• Reverse glossary gives usual English form of Hebrew names and terms used
• Index of Tanakh (Old Testament) passages cited in the B'rit Hadashah (New Testament)
• The traditional weekly and holiday synagogue readings, plus relevant readings from the B'rit Hadashah (New Testament)

About the Translator

David H. Stern, born in Los Angeles in 1935, is the great-grandson of two of the city's first twenty Jews. He earned a Ph.D. in economics at Princeton University and was a professor at UCLA. In 1972 he came to faith in Yeshua the Messiah. He then received a Master of Divinity degree at Fuller Theological Seminary, did graduate work at the University of Judaism, and was active in the Messianic Jewish movement. In 1979 the Stern family made aliyah (immigrated to Israel); they now live in Jerusalem. Dr. Stern authored the Messianic Jewish Manifesto. His highly acclaimed English translation, the Jewish New Testament, restores the New Testament's Jewishness. His Jewish New Testament Commentary discusses the many Jewish issues found in the New Testament. His fresh translation, the Complete Jewish Bible, expresses the unity of the Tanakh (Old Testament) and the B'rit Hadashah (New Testament).