About the Complete
Jewish Bible
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, the
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.
ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR
David H.
Stern was born in Los Angeles in 1935, 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, mountain-climber, co-author
of a book on surfing, and owner of health-food stores.
In 1972, he came to believe in Yeshua as the Messiah,
after which he received a Master of Divinity degree at
Fuller Theological Seminary and did graduate work at the
University of Judaism. Dr. Stern taught Fuller
Theological Seminary's first course in "Judaism and
Christianity," organized Messianic Jewish conferences
and leaders' meetings, and was an officer of the
Messianic Jewish Alliance of America.
Dr. Stern is the author of Messianic Jewish Manifesto,
which outlines the destiny, identity, history, theology
and program of today's Messianic Jewish movement. He
also wrote Restoring the Jewishness of the Gospel: A
Message for Christians. It consists of excerpts from
the former book selected for Christians to whom the
Jewishness of the Gospel is an unfamiliar idea.
His Jewish New Testament, which has been
incorporated into the Complete Jewish Bible, is
the basis for its companion volume, the Jewish New
Testament Commentary. This book discusses Jewish
issues raised in the New Testament -- questions Jews
have about Yeshua, the New Testament and Christianity;
questions Christians have about Judaism and the Jewish
roots of their faith; and questions Messianic Jews have
about their own identity and role.
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