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Reviews on Stern's "Complete Jewish Bible"
- Thread starter Shermana
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Levite
Higher and Higher
I picked it up and looked through it at the library. It's J4J trash. I wouldn't accept a copy if offered for free.
Shermana
Heretic
Thank you Levite,
If you were to play Devil's advocate, would you have a particular recommendation of a Tanakh + "NT" through Jewish-lens for the anti-JFJ-yet-"Messianic"-type that retains a degree gramatical and scholarly accuracy?
Levite
Higher and Higher
Not in one, no. They just don't belong together.
But in addition to the various editions of the Tanach and Chumash that I've typically recommended here, I would also recommend The Jewish Annotated New Testament, by Amy-Jill Levine and Mark Zvi Brettler. A very fine work of scholarship.
The Jewish Study Bible (JPS) plus The Jewish Annotated New Testament (NRSV) are fine.
As noted above, the Jewish Annotated New Testament is NRSV-based. One reason to get it is for the commentary and introductions, but it's real value lies in its numerous essays - essays like "Jewish Miracle Workers in the Late Second Temple Period" (Vermes) and "Logos, a Jewish Word: John's Prologue as Midrash" (Boyarin). Taken as a whole, the text supports the recontextualization of the NT in much the same way that Schiffman's "Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls" provided a much needed lens for viewing those works.
