The New Messianic Version (NMV): The Complete Old & New together in Print for the FIRST TIME![ SMALL PRINT 9 Point]
The NMV of the Bible is becoming increasingly popular among believers in Jesus because it highlights some significant things that other Bible versions do not.
The NMV, challenges both Jews and Christians to see that the whole Bible is Jewish. It restores the names of people and places to their "Jewish" pronunciation by more accurately transliterating their names, and it translates every name of people and places in-line with the text, so that it reads much like an "Amplified Bible."
Author Tov Rose says, "Today, Jewish people and Christians alike suffer a similar kind of blindness concerning the nature and person of Because of this, they do not know their God as they should. There is a secret hidden in your Bible, and this is the only Bible that clearly reveals it by transliterating both forms of the Divine Name." He doesn't use the Sacred Name to encourage people to speak the Divine Name, but to teach something several New Testament authors also
This Bible answers the one question most Christians and Jewish people alike get wrong, "Who is the God of the Hebrew Bible that performs miracles, and is seen and spoken with by people at least 44 times?"
If you said, "The Father," then you've missed several important New Testament revelations about the identity of this Divine Person!
The New Testament book of John 6:46 Jesus says, 'No man has seen The Father...' well then," says Tov, "who have people seen?" This Bible Version clearly shows you who the "author" really is, and it isn't God the Father. As a matter of fact, John calls him "The Word," Paul calls Him, "Messiah," and Jude calls Him, "Jesus!"
The NMV clearly tells you which Old Testament Names of God represent Father God, and which others represent The Son of God--an ancient teaching understood and written about by the New Testament authors.
Tov again, "For example, just look at Isaiah 44:6: 'Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the Lord of 'I am the first and I am the last, And there is no God besides Me.' Then look at the New Testament's book of Revelation 22:13 where Jesus says, 'I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.' Obviously, there is something more to our theology that is clearly misunderstood among many of today's Christians and Jews alike. 'Jesus said unto them, 'Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I AM.'' (John 8:58). Many Christian and Jewish scholars believe Jesus actually pronounced the Unspeakable Divine Name when he said that, identifying himself as that Divine Person!"
In several ways, this is not like other Bibles, it intentionally views the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible through a New Covenant 1st Century Jewish believer's point of view, rather than assuming a "Progressive Revelation" stance as nearly all other English Bibles do.
In other words, "Now that we have the New Testament Revelation of Jesus. We are SUPPOSED to read our Old Testaments/Hebrew Bibles THIS way."
Jewish people are challenged by the implication that the Tanakh (Old Testament) is an incomplete Bible without the New Testament understanding that Yeshua (Jesus) is the God of the Hebrew Bible.
TOV Rose is an author speaker, television producer, performer, Bible teacher, writer, chaplain, pastor and founder of The Entertainment Industry Chaplains. For nearly 20 years he has been active working with people of various ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. The first pastor featured on Playboy Radio, he not only has experience working with people in the world of entertainment, by also in areas such as mental illness, abuse recovery, life and career coaching, chronic and terminal illness, the spiritual roots of disease, counseling and support. He has also developed a reputation for covering difficult Bible topics most teachers would avoid.
Victims of Child Sexual Abuse and Christian Organizational Spiritual Abuse, TOV and his wife Michelle have been involved with several organizations helping protect children online and adult victims recover.
Tov has served on the staff of four Congregations, several Para-church organizations, been a church planter, and currently serves on the Board of Directors for Midwest Hebrew Ministries. He has ministered, performed and taught at thousands of congregations, Bible conferences and seminars world-wide, sharing his unique perspectives and passion for people, for God and for Biblical truths.
In addition to practical ministry experience and education, Tov Rose has studied Biblical Hebrew and Theology with Dr. John H. Sailhamer, and Biblical Greek with Dr. David Alan Black. He was also allowed the unique privilege to experience an intensive long-term private tutorship in the subjects of Jewish and Rabbinic Theology, Christian & Messianic Theology, Thought & Literature; Hebrew, Yiddish, Biblical Research, and much more, with Dr. Louis Goldberg (deceased), Professor Emeritus and 30-year Chairman of the Jewish Studies Department at Moody Bible Institute, Chicago.
Interesting reading all the Hebrew translations of all the proper nouns, but they tended to hinder the reading of the text, which for me is paramount. Some errors such as "heal of God" instead of "heel" wre evident. In Matt 16:18 the most glaring error occurred , quoting: "you are Even (which means a Pebble) and I will build upon you my house of prayer..." Yikes! Also in some areas the Hebrew names were not completely accurate. I do not recommend this version for devotional reading.