[Ed Hansberry]

Originally Posted by Chairman Clench

What Handmark is doing here is wrong. They are not clearly marking this product for what it is.

Whoa... Handmark is doing nothing but selling an electronic version of this.

Everyone back down a bit. This is not an attack on anyone. I am going to lock this thread for a few hrs and let everyone cool off. This post and thread was meant to be a resource for those interested in the content, not as an attack on anyone's beliefs nor as a repository to hold attacks against anyone's beliefs.

[Ed Hansberry]

Originally Posted by Chairman Clench

What Handmark is doing here is wrong. They are not clearly marking this product for what it is.

Whoa... Handmark is doing nothing but selling an electronic version of this.

Everyone back down a bit. This is not an attack on anyone. I am going to lock this thread for a few hrs and let everyone cool off. This post and thread was meant to be a resource for those interested in the content, not as an attack on anyone's beliefs nor as a repository to hold attacks against anyone's beliefs.

[Jacob]

Originally Posted by Chairman Clench

As a traditional Jew however, I find this whole thing rather insulting. Trying to pass a Christian interpretation off as a mainstream Jewish product is wrong under this kind of title.

I agree with you that passing messianic Jewish texts and the new testament as traditional Judaism is insulting. However this is not the case here. The book they are publishing appears to be a legitimate Jewish translation of the old testament. It does not include the new testament at all so it would be considered as a Jewish "bible" per se.

In this case I think your anger is misplaced.

[Guest979]

I agree. I respect the rights of Messianic Jews to believe in whatever they want, but I feel it is inappropriate for them to call themselves part of Judaism. Saying "Let's have Judaism, but with Jesus" is no different from saying, "Let's have Christianity, but with Donkey Kong instead of Jesus." My point is just that you can see how this could be construed as insulting. I'm not pointing the finger at any poster in particular or even at Handmark, since I'm not really familiar with this product. I'm not trying to insult anyone's beliefs. But I empathize with the frustration of some of the other posters.

I also agree that "Bible" is not an appropriate term for a Jewish Prayer Book - Sedur is a more common term (I don't know if that's the correct transliteration of the Hebrew name).

I don't know where else to put this, so I'll just include it here: I don't like having Santa in my posts whenever I instinctively type a smiley, i.e. . I am not Christian, and I do not celebrate Christmas. Can I turn this off for my own posts?

This post was not intended to be offensive, and I hope it is not.