Jewish New Testament Commentary

por David H. Stern

Editorial:

Jewish New Testament Publications

, 1996

Overview

This companion volume to the Jewish New Testament enhances Bible study. Passages and expressions are explained in their original cultural context, the way 1st century Jewish writers meant for them to be understood! Over fifteen years of research and study went into the Jewish New Testament Commentary to make the New Testament more meaningful!

Contents

Top Highlights

“This period, with its failing eyes, trouble and evil decrees, is referred to” (Matthew 24:1)

“In Judaism the citation of a Scripture text implies the whole context, not merely the quoted words.” (Matthew 2:6)

“The word ‘trinity’ appears nowhere in the New Testament” (Matthew 28:19)

“but to turn his readers’ concern away from animal sacrifices and toward the significance of Yeshua’s final sacrifice” (Hebrews 6:4)

“A good rule of interpretation is that when the literal sense makes good sense, seek no other sense” (Revelation 2:9)

About David H. Stern

David H. Stern born in Los Angeles in 1935, is 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. He then received a Master of Divinity degree at Fuller Theological Seminary, did graduate work at the University of Judaism, and was active in the Messianic Jewish movement. Dr. Stern authored the highly acclaimed English translations, the Jewish New Testament, the Jewish New Testament Commentary, and the Complete Jewish Bible which are available from Logos Bible Software.