Complete Jewish Bible: An English Version by David H. Stern - Updated Hardcover – February 1, 2017

What I like the Most about this translation is that the Hebrew names are restored to the Jewish authors of the Brit Hadashah or New Covenant, along with the Messiah -- while this translation also does NOT conceal the Fact that the Entire Bible is written by Jews, initially to Jews!For I am not ashamed of the Good News, since it is God's powerful means of bringing salvation to everyone who keeps on trusting, to the Jew especially, but equally to the Gentile. {Romans 1:16}But Yeshua did not say a word to her. Then his talmidim came to him and urged him, "Send her away, because she is following us and keeps pestering us with her crying." He said, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." {Mattityahu (Matthew) 15:23-24}However, I still do compare this Brit Hadashah (New Covenant) with the NKJV since it translates from the Textus Receptus.My life totally fell apart after moving away for college when one of my parents unexpectedly passed away. The funeral took place on a bright, crisp, chilly Fall day in October at a national cemetery located on the Rock Island Arsenal. Copies of Psalm 23 had been printed-out onto bookmarks and handed to everyone who attended, while a close family friend sung "Amazing Grace." For the first time ever, I started to seriously Read and Study the ENTIRE Bible starting from the Beginning in Genesis through to the End: Revelation, just how I had been taught. . .Psalm 116 per New JPS5: The LORD is gracious and beneficent;our God is compassionate.6: The LORD protects the simple;I was brought low and He saved me.7: Be at rest, once again, O my soul,for the LORD has been good to you.You people don't know what you are worshipping; we worship what we do know, because salvation comes from the Jews.{Yochanan (John) 4:22}For the Torah was given through Moshe;grace and truth came through Yeshua the Messiah. {Yochanan (John) 1:17}We have all received from his fullness,yes, grace upon grace. {Yochanan (John) 1:16}Goodness and grace will pursue me every day of my life; and I will live in the house of ADONAI for years and years to come. {Psalm 23:6}1.) So Yeshua said to them again,"Yes, indeed! I tell you that I am the gate for the sheep." {Yochanan (John) 10:7}2.) I am the gate;if someone enters through me, he will be safe and will go in and out and find pasture.{Yochanan (John) 10:9}3.) I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.{Yochanan (John) 10:11}When Yeshua had finished speaking, he said to his talmidim, "As you know, Pesach is two days away, and the Son of Man will be handed over to be nailed to the execution-stake."{Mattityahu (Matthew) 26:1-2}The God of shalom brought up from the dead the great Shepherd of the sheep, our Lord Yeshua, by the blood of an eternal covenant. {Hebrews 13:20}4.) Also I have other sheep which are not from this pen; I need to bring them, and they will hear my voice; and there will be one flock, one shepherd. {Yochanan (John) 10:16}"We all went astray like sheep,Each going his own way;And the LORD visited upon himThe guilt of all of us." {Isaiah 53:6} per New JPS5.) he again fixes a certain day, "Today," saying through David, so long afterwards, in the text already given, "Today, if you hear God's voice, don't harden your hearts." {Hebrews 4:7}6.) What, then, does it say?"The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart." -- that is, the word about trust which we proclaim, namely, that if you acknowledge publicly with your mouth that Yeshua is Lord and trust in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be delivered. {Romans 10:8-9}That means that there is no difference between Jew and Gentile -- ADONAI is the same for everyone, rich toward everyone who calls on him, since everyone who calls on the name of ADONAI will be delivered. {Romans 10:12-13}7.) Just as human beings have to die once,but after this comes judgment, so also the Messiah, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin, but to deliver those who are eagerly waiting for him. {Hebrews 9:27-28}8.) And eternal life is this: to know you, the one true God, and him whom you sent, Yeshua the Messiah. {Yochanan (John) 17:3}Therefore, if anyone is united with the Messiah, he is a new creation -- the old has passed; look, what has come is fresh and new! {2 Corinthians 5:17}He renews my life;He guides me in right paths as befits His name. {Psalm 23:3} per New JPS"This Yeshua is the stone rejected by you builders which has become the cornerstone. There is salvation in no one else! For there is no other name under heaven given to mankind by whom we must be saved!" {Acts 4:11-12}I praise You, for You have answered me,and have become my deliverance. The stone that the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. {Psalm 118:21-22} per New JPSYou are my God and I will praise You;You are my God and I will extol You.Praise the LORD for He is good,His steadfast love is eternal. {Psalm 118:28-29} per New JPS"For God so loved the world that he gave his only and unique Son, so that everyone who trusts in him may have eternal life, instead of being utterly destroyed. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but rather so that through him, the world might be saved." {Yochanan (John) 3:16-17}Pilate also had a notice written and posted on the stake; it read,YESHUA FROM NATZERETTHE KING OF THE JEWS{Yochanan (John) 19:19}Savior he is for ALL from their Sins. Halleluyah!!!

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I can't say enough about how transformative this Bible has been, simply by reuniting the Jewish and Christian traditions in ways that should never have been sundered. (Just as Jeshua the Christ joins G-d and (Hu)Man, so does the Tanach join G-d and place - from ancient Judea and Samaria all the way back to Eden. It is as if Jeshua were the navel of (Hu)Man born of G-d, and the Tanach were the navel of (Hu)Man born of G-d's Earth.) And Dr. Stern's consistent and learned translation from the Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic, along with his lightly worn and yet deeply resonant scholarship - clearly the product of one as Devoted as he is Reflective - manifests the Whole of the Faith in its Unitary Seamlessness.All of my early Christian life I felt, subarticulately, somehow separated in a way that I couldn't quite put my finger on from our Roots. Most of my closest friends' having been Jewish or Catholic might well have manifested this inner sense that there was a Presence far older and deeper to which I deep-down belonged.Confirming as a Roman Catholic by my early twenties got me halfway to recovery of those Eternal Roots, and I distinctly recall finding the actual representation of the corporeal Jeshua on the Roman Catholic crucifix, along with the literal trans-substantiation conception of the Eucharist, part of this feeling of attraction to and relief upon joining that Church. Now this Bible and the Clarity of Understanding from which it emanates have *completed* the Return.Thank you and Bless you, dear David Stern and your colleagues in Congregation. I can literally think of no human beings in history since the Prophets and the Apostles who have done more to Redeem the World than have you. Thank you forever and ever.Yours truly, R

This bible is easy to read with the giant 16 point type size. We use it on a small pulpit to read the scripture - like a Torah scroll - in our Messianic Saturday congregation of Jews and non-Jews who have accepted Yeshua as Messiah - I would highly recommend this bible - clear modern translation of the Hebrew and Greek texts from the originals but it keeps the Hebrew spelling of all Bible names

Excellent bible to help understanding Hebrew roots

It’s partly my error but I thought that I was buying the study Bible version and had already highlighted a few things before I realized that. So I have to buy a whole new one. But it’s on sale so I’m ok with it just wish I realized it sooner. Some of the pages were stuck together at the top so it started to tear

I LOVE this BiBle! Translations, idioms & traditions are all in this Complete Jewish BiBle. I have learned so much; words, meanings, festivals, this BiBle is FANTASTIC if you really want to Deep Dive into what the BiBle was really ment to say.Thank You Rabi David Stern!

I enjoy using this Bible to help me study, seeing things in a different perspective help me a lot