Stern was born in Los Angeles in 1935, the great-grandson of two of the city's first twenty Jews. You can get more information on this unique Bible version at. Also for the first time the information needed for the synagogue readings from the Torah and the Prophets is completely integrated with similar use of the B'rit Hadashah. In short, the Complete Jewish Bible restores the Jewish unity of the Bible. Christians are challenged with the fact that they are joined to the Jewish people through faith in the Jewish Messiah, Yeshua (Jesus) - so that because Christianity can be rightly understood only from a Jewish perspective, anti-Semitism is condemned absolutely and forever. Jews are challenged by the implication that without it the Tanakh is an incomplete Bible. Even its title, the Complete Jewish Bible, challenges both Jews and Christians to see that the whole Bible is Jewish, the B'rit Hadashah as well as the Tanakh.

The Complete Jewish Bible is the only English version of the Bible fully Jewish in style and presentation that includes both the Tanakh ('Old Testament') and the B'rit Hadashah (New Covenant, 'New Testament').