Complete Jewish Bible

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Summary: This is a sham!
Review: This is not a JEWISH bible. No Jewish religious book contains anything about Jesus -- he is not even mentioned anywhere in the Torah, Talmud, or Commentaries! The "messianic jew" is an abomination and this book is a travesty of the Jewish religion which is complete all by itself without any Christianity added to it. Jesus belongs to Christianity, NOT TO JUDAISM! Any Jew who attends synagogue services in a JEWISH (aka GENUINE)synagogue, reads the entire bible from beginning to end (and it doesn't include the New Testament)every year beginning on Rosh Hashana. That means that I've read it nearly 50 times just in synagogue(to say nothing of what I've read on my own) and the name of Jesus NEVER appeared in the text! If anyone wants to find out about Judaism, I suggest that they go to a site with REAL rabbis such as Messiah Truth (http://www.messiahtruth.com/) and learn something about Judaism. No one will learn about Judaism from this farce which calls itself a bible!

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Summary: You can call an elephant a piano but it is still an elephant
Review: And "Messianic" Christians can call their form of Christianity Judaism, add lots of Jewish and Hebrew words to it, and try as best they can to make their religion appear Jewish, but it is still Christianity.

Christianity is a wonderful religion filled with kind caring people...but it is not Judaism, it is not a completion of Judaism, it is not an extension of Judaism (and the more you study the histories and books of both religions, the more you will know this), and should not be confused with Judaism.

It is a different religion. To say otherwise is deceptive, and that's exactly what this book is. It is the new way of deceiving Jews into thinking that they can accept Jesus as do the Christians, and still be Jewish.

Judaism and Christianity are two very, very different religions.

Let's understand this, respect it, and love everyone as a child of G-d, without trying to change or convert them.

And yes, for a Jew to accept Jesus and accept the Christian precepts, he/she does have to forego their Jewish belief system; have no doubt about it.

Shame on Dr. Stern for calling this "The Complete Jewish Bible." If you have to lie to get people to accept your premises, then what does that tell you about your premise.

Again, this is no slight at all towards Christianity; only to those who would use deception to make their case

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Summary: awesome translation
Review: david really brings out the jewishness of the new testament. he applies jewish thought to the scripture and really tries to reveal the true meaning of what the new testament believers were saying

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Summary: not what one may think
Review: Obviously, this is not a "Jewish Bible". This is a Christian Bible, which includes the Christian New Testament, which was Greek. Christianity and Judaism have been dramatically different religions from the time the pagans declared that Jesus was a man-god born of a virgin and should be worshipped, and one with intellectual honesty and personal integrity is hopelessly challenged to reconcile the New Testament into being in any way "Jewish." Anyone but Christians certainly find this book and all "Messianic" attempts as offensive deception - but then this is what Christians do, as Paul taught.

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Summary: DECEPTION!
Review: Jewish people beware! This is NOT a Jewish bible. This IS a Christian bible. In my opinion the author is trying to deceive people. If you are Jewish please pick up an Artscroll(or other) TaNaCh. I rate this ZERO stars.

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Summary: Beautiful
Review: I am Jewish, and I am glad to see the Author put the correct words into the Tanakh! Example is the word LAW which should be TORAH. Even in the B'Rit Hasashah Jesus name in reality Hebrew that is was Yeshua! The correct hebrew names and terms make the Tanakh worth reading again. This will give the customer a different perspective on the Tanakh again!! I do have many Bibles and none compare to this one. I believe this Tanakh will bring out the Jewishness out of everyone, with a better way of understanding it!!

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Summary: A Jewish slant on the whole bible
Review: Having first come across David Stern`s New Testament translation, I ordered the whole bible. The hard back edition makes it a firm but fairly heavy book to hold. I had expected the layout to be in two columns but I have found that I have soon got used to the lack of columns.
The OT seems to have less additional notes than the NT version
but nevertheless it is very useful to have the various Hebrew words, names and expressions included in the text.
I also usually find the personal translation very helpful and insightful. It is good to use in parallel and in conjunction with other translations as well as an authority in its own right.

All in all I am pleased with my purchase and look forward to reading the NT Commentary in due course

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Summary: Provides Fresh, Accurate Insight
Review: Those reviewers who think that this translation is called the Complete Jewish Bible in order to 'trap' unsuspecting Jews into reading the New Testament have not read the authors information available on the first pages of the book. While writing this book to show the Jewishness of the New Testament to Jew and Gentile, the book can hardly be concidered deceptive...a glance at the back of the book or the table of contents will remind the reader that 'Bible' does not refer only to the Tanakh, so any Jew should realize that there is something else here.

For followers of Yeshua, however, this is a good translation that deserves it's spot on your study shelf along with your NIV, NASB, or NASB.

I have been using this translation for several years now and find it to be very accurate. I have compared it to several other standard versions and to several interlineary bibles and have been very happy with it.

As an example of the accuracy of the text, take, for example, the Greek word pisteo. The Greek word has several trasnlations: belief, faith, trust. In John 11:25, Yeshua mentions that "eveyone who (believes in, has faith in, trusts in) Me shall live even if he dies." If this is translated as believe, as it is in many translations, even the demons will live. But seeing that this word has several meanings, Dr. Stern uses other scriptures to decide that he will use the word faith. To put your faith in Yeshua is not the same as simply believing in Him.

I find that reading the names of people and places in Hewbrew rather than in English reminds me that the culture was different and I have to keep that in mind in understanding how it applies to me. Having read scripture for years, I was beginning to find my eyes scanning pages I've read over and over again without taking in the information. This translation stopped that completely.

I feel it is important for every Christian to understand the roots of his/her religion to fully understand the New Covnenant. The CJB has been a wonderful translation for me.

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Summary: About time for this translation to appear!
Review: I've been puzzled for most of my Christian life as to why Judaism has been so forcefully excluded from our thought life; so I went to Israel for myself, to live for a year there and learn all that I could, and found this translation! It explains so much that we've been missing for millennia, key phrases in Jesus's sermons which are linked directly to common Jewish rituals and ways of thought which us Christians have no idea about! For instance, as Mr. Stern points out, when Jesus said "But if your eye is evil, all your body will be dark. If then the light which is in you is dark, how dark it will be!" in Matthew 6, he's actually referring to the Jewish custom that a stingy or ungenerous man had a 'dark' or 'evil' eye. This reference to being stingy goes right along with the rest of the chapter, which talks about good stewardship, but is often mistranslated by our lack of cultural understanding to mean that the fellow with a 'dark eye' is just mean or wicked somehow. What an eye-opener (forgive the pun) to see Jesus from a Jewish man's perspective. My boyfriend, while in Israel, had supper with David H. Stern, the translation's creator; I can testafy that he is as close to an orthodox Jewish man as someone who believes Jesus is the Messiah can get, so I think he knows what he's talking about here. Great translation, easy read, and a lot of really sharp insights. I am looking forward to a commentary volume by Mr. Stern, please don't dissappoint us!

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Summary: Why the Yiddish?
Review: I don't want to repeat what has been said before, so I will just make one point. There are a number of Yiddish words scattered throughout the New Testament. Of course Jews no more spoke Yiddish in Christ's time than they spoke English. I asked Dr Stern why he had done this; he replied that it was to add to the Jewish flavor of the New Testament. That sums up the book - deliberate sloppy scholarship to convey a false flavor of Jewishness.