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The Complete Hebraic-Roots Version Bible (Tanak and "New Testament")
is due for publication in late December or January but you can
reserve your copy at a discount now.

Unlike previous Messianic translations the HRV Bible Tanak AND "New
Testament" are BOTH translated from Hebrew and Aramaic rather than
Greek.

Some of the major features of the HRV include:

MESSIANIC TERMINOLOGY

TRANSLATED FROM HEBREW AND ARAMAIC
RATHER THAN FROM GREEK

SACRED NAME APPEARS BASED ON MANUSCRIPT EVIDENCE

LITERAL TRANSLATION, NOT PARAPHRASED

BOOKS APPEAR IN THE ORIGINAL ANCIENT MANUSCRIPT ORDER

QUOTES FROM TANAK (OLD TEST.)
APPEAR BOLD FACED AND FOOTNOTED

OVER 1,700 SCHOLARLY FOOTNOTES
CITING THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGES ETC
IN THE "NEW TESTAMENT" ALONE!

The Hebraic Roots Version (which began as the Semitic New Testament
Project) was a ten year project to produce a new and accurate
translation of the New Testament taken primarily from old Hebrew and
Aramaic sources. It was later expanded to include the Tanak as well.

Now that we are coming out with a complete HRV Bible some of you
have been emailing and calling asking about how the Tanak (Old
Testament) portion of this Tanak compares with others

Fist of all the HRV will follow the original manuscript order for
the Tanak books and divinding them into three sections: The Torah
(The Law); The Navi'im (The Prophets) and The Ketuvim (The Writings).

Secondly this will be a "Sacred Name edition. The Sacred Name of
YHWH will appear as YHWH rather than "LORD" or "GOD". El, Eloah and
Elohim will be transliterated directly into the text and NOT be
translated as "God". All other divine titles like ELYON (Most High)
and ADONAI/ADON (Master) will be transliterated as well. There are
also 134 places where the Masorah indicates that the scribes
altered "YHWH" to "Adonai" and where the Dead Sea Scrolls, where
extant, verify this claim. In these places the text will read YHWH
and have a footnote concerning the textual revision. There are also
8 places where "YHWH" was altered to "Elohim"; in these cases also
the HRV restores YHWH and has a footnote explaining the correction.

Thirdly there are 18 passages where the Masorah records that the
Scribes modified the text of the Tanak where the felt that the
original reading did not show proper respect for Elohim. The HRV
restores these readings and includes footnotes explaining the
restoration.

Fourthly, there are a number of passages which many past
translations have translated poorly. The HRV seeks to correct such
mistranslations which have often led to misunderstandings. The
following are some examples:

5 But he shall say, I am no prophet, I am an husbandman;
for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.
6 And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds
in your hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which
I was wounded in the house of my friends.
(Zech. 13:5-6 KJV)

The Complete Jewish Bible has:

5 and instead, he will say,
"I'm no prophet, I just work the soil;
since my youth I've only wanted to be an ordinary man."
6 If someone asks him, "Then what are these gashes
between your shoulders?" he will answer,
"I got hurt at my friends' house."
(Zech. 13:5-6 CJB)

"The Scriptures" version from ISR has:

5 but shall say, "I am no prophet, I am a farmer,
for a man sold me as a slave in my youth.
6 And one shall say to him, "What are these wounds
in your hands?" And he shall say,
"Because I was wounded at home by those who love me."

Now there is a lot of difference between these three readings. Yet
all three make a fundamental mistake in translation. In the Hebrew
both verse 5 and verse 6 open with exactly the same
word/phrase "V'AMAR" meaning "And [he] shall say...". In verse 5
the KJV has "but he shall say" and in verse 6 the same phrase is
translated "and one shall say". In the CJB verse 5 has "and
instead, he will say" and then in verse 6 the identical Hebrew
phrase is translated "If someone asks". In "The Scriptures" version
verse 5 has "but shall say" and then in verse 6 the identical Hebrew
phrase is translated "And one shall say".

The result of all three mistranslations is to WRONGLY imply that the
speaker has shifted at the beginning of verse 6. Thus if we were to
use the format of a script we would read:

False Prophet: I am no prophet, I am an husbandman;
for man taught me to keep cattle from my youth.

Messianic Judge: What are these wounds in your hands?

False Prophet: Those with which I was wounded in the house of my
friends.

However the HRV translates both phrases the same as follows:

5 And he shall say:
"I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the ground;
for a man purchassed me from my youth."
6 And he shall say to him: "What are these wounds
in the midst of your hands? Then he shall answer:
"Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends."
(Zech. 13:5-6 HRV)

Thus in the HRV the shift in speaker does not occur until verse 6b
as follows:

False Prophet: I am no prophet, I am a tiller of the ground;
for a man purchassed me from my youth."
What are these wounds in the midst of your hands?

Messianic Judge: Those with which I was wounded in the house of my
friends.

In most versions the the figure with the wounds in the midst of his
hands is the false prophet while in the HRV it is the Messianic
Judge. Thus in the HRV version the passage points back to Zech.
12:10 and the one who is "pierced" and forward to Zech 13:7 where
a "shepherd" is smitten and his sheep scatter.

Two other points:

In verse 5b the CJB has "since my youth I've only wanted to be an
ordinary man" however the Hebrew reads simply KI-ADAM ("for a man")
HIK'NANI ("purchased me") MIN'URAI ("from my youth").

In verse 6 the Hebrew pharse BAYN YADEYAK means literally "in the
midst of your hands" but the CJB interprets this to refer
to "between your shoulders" but thus loses the obvious reference to
Messiah Yeshua.

Another important passage where many translations have poorly
translated is Ex. 6:3. The KJV has:

And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob,
by the name of God Almighty,
but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.
(Ex. 6:3 KJV)

The CJB by David Stern has:

I appeared to Avraham, Yitz'chak and Ya'akov
as El Shadai,
although I did not make myself known to them
by the name, Yud-Heh-Vav-Heh [ADONAI].
(Ex. 6:3 CJB)

"The Scriptures" version by ISR has:

And I appeared to Abraham, to Yitshaq, and to Ya'aqob,
as El Shaddai.
And by My Name, YHWH, was I not known to them?

Now in Hebrew there is no interagative clause as we know it in
English. In Hebrew questions often appear as statements made in a
questioning manner.

In this case the phase "...by My Name YHWH was I not known to
them..." is actually a question (as "The Scriptures" version also
rightly translates) "And by My Name YHWH was I not known to them?".
Also all three versions: the KJV; the CJB and "The Scriptures"
render the Hebrew phrase B'EL SHADDAI as "by the name of God
Almighty" (in the KJV) and with "as El Shaddai" in the CJB and "The
Scriptures" however this phase should literally be translated as it
appears in the HRV as "in El Shaddai".

Thus the HRV reads in this passage:

3 and I appeared unto Avraham, unto Yitzchak,
and unto Ya'akov, in El Shaddai,
and by My name YHWH was I not known to them?
(Sh'mot 6:3 HRV)

Thus in the HRV this passage is properly tanslated so as to remain
consitant with the rest of the Torah in which Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob did often refer to YHWH by the name of "YHWH" and properly
relates that YHWH appeared to them "in El Shaddai".

One last example I will give here is Deut. 22:9 where the KJV has:

Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seed:
lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown,
and the fruit of thy vinyard, be defiled.
(Deut. 22:9 KJV)

Stern's CJB has:

You are not to sow two kinds of seed between
your rows of vines;
if you do both the two harvested crops
and the yield from the vines must be forfeited.
(Deut. 22:9 CJB)

"The Scriptures" from ISR has:

Do not sow your vinyard with different kinds of seed,
lest the yield of the seed which you have sown
and the fruit of your vinyard be defiled.

Now the Hebrew word that both the KJV and "The Scriptures" have
translated as "defiled" is KADASH which means exactly the opposite
of "defiled", KADASH is never translted "defiled" in any other
passage. The word KADASH means "holy" (i.e. property of the Temple
Priesthood). The CJB interprets rather than translates KADASH to
mean "must be forfeited" which conveys a more correct idea but fails
to relate the fact that the fruit is holy and forfeited specificly
to the Temple and becomes property of YHWH. This is especially
important because it shed great light on the parable of the wheat
and tares (Mt. 13) as it demonstrates that the enemy (HaSatan) has
forfeited both crops to YHWH.

(At this point I want to say that I have not chosen the CJB and "The
Scriptures" for comparison because they are bad translations, to the
contrary I have chosen to compare to them because they are good
translations.)

Finally the HRV Tanak contains many footnotes giving important
alternate readings from the Dead Sea Scroll manuscripts; the
Samaritan Pentateuch; the Greek Septuagent; the Aramaic Peshitta
Tanak and the Aramaic Targums.

The HRV "New Testament" text is taken from ancient Hebrew and
Aramaic manuscripts.
(Shem Tob, DuTillet and Muster Hebrew Matthew; Munster Hebrew
Hebrews; The Old Syriac Aramaic Gospels; The Aramaic Peshitta NT and
the Crawford Aramaic Revelation.)

Unlike most translations this edition is not rooted in a Greek
Hellenistic text. Instead this translation seeks to understand the
text of the New Testament from the languages in which it was
originally written. This is important because there are some
passages in the NT which do not make sense at all in Greek, but only
begin to make sense when we look at them in Hebrew and Aramaic:

Acts 11:27-30


And in these days prophets came from Jerusalem to Antioch. Then one
of them, named Agabus, stood up and showed by the Spirit that there
was going to be a great famine throughout all THE WORLD, which also
happened in the days of Claudius Caesar. Then the talmidim, each
according to his ability, determined to send relief to the brothers
dwelling IN JUDEA. This they also did, and sent it to the elders by
the hands of Barnabas and Saul.



Now this doesn't make sense at all, why would those in Antioch send
relief to those dwelling IN JUDEA if the famine was to strike all
THE WORLD. They would be facing famine themselves. The solution
lies in the fact that the word for "WORLD" in the Aramaic
manuscripts is `ERA (Strong's #772) the Aramaic form
of the Hebrew word ERETZ (Strong's 776). This word can mean "world"
(as in Prov. 19:4) "earth" (as in Dan. 2:35) or "land" (as in Dan.
9:15) and is often used as a euphemism for "The Land of Israel" (as
in Dan. 9:6). Certainly the word here is not meant to mean "world"
but "land of Israel."


Mt. 26:9 = Mk. 14:3


And when Y'shua was in Bethany at the house of Simon the leper,


As any Bible student knows, lepers were not permitted to live in the
city (see Lev. 13:46). Since ancient Hebrew and Aramaic were written
without vowels, there was no distinction between the Aramaic words
GAR'BA (leper) and GARABA (jar maker or jar merchant). Since in this
story a woman pours oil from a jar it is apparent that Simon was a
jar merchant or jar maker and not a leper.


Mt. 19:12 & Acts 8:26f


....there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the
Kingdom of Heaven's sake....
--Mt. 19:12 NKJV

So he [Phillip] arose and went. And behold, a man of Ethiopia, a
eunuch of great authority under Candace the queen of the Ethiopians,
who had charge of all her treasury, and had come to Jerusalem to
worship.
--Acts 8:27 NKJV


The man in Acts 8:27 appears to be a proselyte to Judaism since he
seems to be making the Torah-required pilgrimage to Jerusalem (Dt.
16:16). The Torah, however, forbids a eunuch both from becoming a
proselyte Jew, and from worshiping at the Temple (Dt. 23:1f). This
also raises the question of why one would become a eunuch (be
castrated) for the sake of the Kingdom of Heaven. After all eunuchs
are excluded from the assembly of Israel. The word for "eunuch" in
the Aramaic manuscripts of both of theses passages is M'HAIMNA which
can mean "eunuch" but can also mean "believer" or "faithful one" as
it clearly means here.


Mt. 19:24 = Mk. 10:25 = Lk. 18:25


...it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle
than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.


The word for "camel" in the Aramaic manuscripts is GAMLA which can
mean "camel" but can also refer to a "large rope," which is
certainly the meaning here.

Jn. 12:11 & 15:16

One word that the Greek translators often misunderstood was the
Aramaic word `EZAL which normally means "to go" or "to depart" but
is used idiomatically in Aramaic to mean that some action goes
forward and that something progresses "more and more".

One case where the Greek translator misunderstood this word and
translated to literally is in Jn. 12:11:


Because that by reason of him many of the Jews
went away (!?!?!?!?), and believed on Jesus. (KJV)


Now I have translated the Aramaic of this passage as follows:


because many of the Judeans, on account of him,
were trusting more and more (`EZAL) in Yeshua.


And Jn. 15:16:


...that ye should go and bring forth fruit...
KJV


I have translated from the Aramaic:


...that you also should bear fruit more and more (`EZAL)...



The HRV Tanak it translated primarily from the Hebrew Masoretic Text
contains many footnotes giving important alternate readings from the
Dead Sea Scroll manuscripts; the Samaritan Pentateuch; the Greek
Septuagent; the Aramaic Peshitta Tanak and the Aramaic Targums.

The HRV "New Testament" text is taken from ancient Hebrew and
Aramaic manuscripts. (Shem Tob, DuTillet and Muster Hebrew Matthew;
Munster Hebrew Hebrews; The Old Syriac Aramaic Gospels; The Aramaic
Peshitta NT and the Crawford Aramaic Revelation.) and has over 1,700
footnotes.

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