
Of course I had to have new material written and gathered from other sources as well… As a publisher it just made sense to take the Complete Jewish Bible to its next logical step and that’s The Complete Jewish Study Bible. I’ve published a lot of books through Messianic Publishers & Resources, maybe about a hundred, and they are all related to understanding the Bible through Jewish eyes… So, because I have access to all those books, I thought… I could take a lot of the content from those books and add it to a Complete Jewish Bible and create a Complete Jewish Study Bible.

About ten years later we decided to come up with a Complete Jewish Bible and they have been very popular. Initially we weren’t sure anybody was going to buy it. Rabbi Rubin: It certainly goes back to the time when David asked me to take over marketing and publishing the Jewish New Testament back in 1989. KNI: How was The Complete Jewish Study Bible project first conceived? Rabbi Rubin has written for a number of magazines and was the publisher of Messianic Jewish Life magazine, the publication of the International Messianic Jewish Alliance. The general editor of The Complete Jewish Study Bible, Rabbi Barry Rubin, as well as leading the Emmanuel Messianic Jewish Congregation in Howard County, Maryland, is the president of Messianic Jewish Communications and the author of, among other books and publications, You Bring the Bagels, I’ll Bring the Gospel: sharing the Messiah with your Jewish Neighbor The Sabbath: Entering God’s Rest the Messianic Passover Haggadah and Dedicate and Celebrate: A Messianic Jewish Guide to Hanukkah. THE COMPLETE JEWISH STUDY BIBLE (CJSB) draws on David Stern ‘s seminal works, the Complete Jewish Bible, the Jewish New Testament and Jewish New Testament Commentary as well as the works of Christian theologians, the Talmud “and major rabbis and Jewish scholars for the past two millennia.” The answer is that this study Bible contains information from Jewish sources to explain a thoroughly Jewish book-the Bible-written by Jews, about Jews, initially for Jews in the Jewish Land of Israel.


…that will open your eyes to the Bible as never before. You may have heard something like this previously, so you might be wondering how I can make such a bold claim. Rabbi Rubin was kind enough to discuss with Kehila News Israel (KNI) the recent release of The Complete Jewish Study Bible, an exciting and invaluable new resource…
