Posted on 03/06/2012 3:23:10 PM PST by NYer
Ping!
Thanks for this — I’m making a note to get it! :)
Interesting. I go to a lot of their sources when I dig already.
FYI: I don’t know if you’ve listened to talks at Hebrew Catholic:
http://hebrewcatholic.org/Studies/MysteryofIsraelChurch/mysteryofisraela.html
Someone at the Institute for Catholic Culture turned me on to it a while back re: salvation history and prophecy.
There are people who call themselves "Jews for Jesus," who strike me as frauds. (The ones I've talked to know next to nothing about Judaism.) But I've met others who refer to themselves as "Messianic Jews," (including in Israel) and they seem to me to be very much Jewish. (If you ask them something offhand about Torah, they know it.) This guy, David H. Stern, strikes me as the latter sort. He has translated the Christian Bible into Jewish English in a way that you probably can only understand if you read it. (E.g. phylacteries are tefillin, etc.) And he has written a companion volume, Jewish New Testament Commentary, which I am also glad I own. (Though I continue to prefer Christian Bible to New Testament.)
ML/NJ
About $24 from Amazon but check out author’s previous book first.
What a coincidence! I just got my copy in the mail TODAY!
Unless this is written by Messianic Jews for Messianic Jews what possible use is it? Why would anyone use a bible commentary written by unregenerate people? Talk about useless.
There’s nothing anti-Jewish in the New Testament, so why is there a perception it has to be clarified?
How exactly are they clarifying the resurrection?
Considering he entire Bible was written by Jews, why is additional Jewish commentary required? Jesus Christ Himself is King of the Jews.
Except for the books of Luke and Acts.
The person to ask is vladimir998 who, according to his post directly above yours, just received his copy in the mail. Look forward to the response :-)
You wrote:
“Unless this is written by Messianic Jews for Messianic Jews what possible use is it? Why would anyone use a bible commentary written by unregenerate people? Talk about useless.”
No, it’s useful. I have only paged through it at this point - I just got it yesterday afterall - but I know it could be quite useful. The footnotes are filled with fascinating details and references to dozens of ancient Jewish documents. There are also a number of essays, tables, and a glossary.
I do not expect to learn doctrine from it - it’s written by “unregenerate people” as you say. I do, however, expect that I will learn quite a good deal about the cultural and historical contexts of the New Testament.
By the way, I do not assume that “Messianic Jews” would necessarily produce something much better than any good study Bible already out there. Messianic Jews are just Protestants with Judaizing tendencies. If I want the fullness of understaning about Christianity I first go to Catholic and Orthodox commentaries.
See post 14.
So, it's essentially a book of ancient Jewish history and culture organized by bible verses. I can see the utility of that. What contemporary sources do they use other than Joesephus, Philo and the Mishnah?
The list of abbreviations for the sources used is 7 pages long. You’ll have to look at it. Go to Amazon. Type in the title of the book. Open the “Search Inside This Book” feature. Type in “List of Abbreviations” at the “Search inside this Book” box and you’ll see a list of all the ancient the sources used.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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An interesting project. Don't want to get into disputes, but the Jewish Study Bible is based on JPS translations, I've actually gifted it on a couple occasions to Christians who wanted to read Jewish translations of the Tanakh. Not commentary. So in my mind Brettler is credible. As to commentary, in the JSB commentary isn't much more than long footnotes. Since vladimir998 has an copy of this book, I'd be curious if that's the case here as well. As to those who comment what's the point, or to who, I kind of agree, but there's always value in these projects.
Bmarked
The Complete Jewish Bible & And the work of David Stern is chopped liver ?
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
Jewish New Testament Commentary
from fifteen years ago.
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