"In the past few centuries the Spirit of Elohim has moved scholars, calling and equipping them, to search and do research in the Scriptures: Hebrew, Greek and related subjects. This research has lead to the increase of knowledge, as was indeed prophesied (Dan'iel / Dan. 12:4).

This great move of the Spirit among these scholars has greatly blessed millions of sincere believers. They were indeed bringing to light (out of the treasure) hidden truths, renewed truths and old truths (Mattityahu / Mt. 13:52). All this treasured knowledge was given through these scholars to all of us, and we are greatly indebted to all of them.

This present work of translating the Scriptures has its origin in the year 1971 when a few of us began to search and do research, after having been called - explicitly called. Soon after this work started "called out" believers from all over the world joined in to help.

While there have been many fine translations which have been a source of blessing to so many, we have felt the need for a translation of the Scriptures which:

1. restores the Name of the Almighty to its rightful place in the text....
2. is recognizably Messianic in that it affirms the Hebraic roots of the Messianic belief by its appearance, by the use of Hebraic forms of certain words and titles, and by its usage of the same division of the pre-Messianic books of Scripture (the Tanak or "Old Testament") that was current at the time of our Messiah.
3. restores the meaning to so many words which have become popular to use, but do not accurately reflect the meaning of the original - for example, church, glory, holy, sacrifice, soul, etc.
4. seeks to be far as possible a "literal" translation, whenever possible rendering key words uniformly.

"The Scriptures" differs radically from most other translations in that it does not continue in the tradition of substituting the Name of the Father and of the Son with names ascribed to gentile (pagan) deities. All the names of deities which in the past have been ascribed to the Father , the Son, and even used when engaged in worship, have been avoided.

One of the post-exilic-apostasies of Orthodox Judaism was the avoidance of the Name of the Almighty, the so-called Tetragrammaton, ( the four lettered Name, YHWH). Because of this and a similar and continued suppression and substitution of the Name by the Church, much harm was done to the True Worship...

THE TANAK (Pre-Messianic Scriptures, commonly called The Old Testament)....in this translation is based on the Massoretic Hebrew and Aramaic text of the Scriptures, printed in the 1937 edition of Rudolph Kittel's Biblia Hebraica....Generally speaking, there are few problems with the Massoretic text, because the Massoretes copied the Scriptures in great fear of making mistakes and altering the text...

THE MESSIANIC SCRIPTURES (commonly called The New Testament).....An increasing number of scholars have, especially lately, taken a stand against the popular belief the "New Testament was inspired in the Greek language". With this we heartily agree. There are close to 28 000 Greek manuscripts or fragments containing all or part of the Messianic Scriptures. The alarming fact is that "every one of these handwritten copies differs from every other one"! This being the case then, which one was the Greek manuscript breathed-out by the Almighty?.....variant Greek manuscripts may not necessarily be in conflict with one another if we consider them to be translations of an inspired Hebrew or Aramaic original.....So, there is a good case to be made for the view that the originals were inspired in a Semitic language and not in the Greek, as is commonly supposed...

We stand in awe and fear before the Most High, knowing that every word rendered in the version, The Scriptures, shall be accounted for. Much is going to be required from those to whom much is given...

With this new translation, The Scriptures, we wish to reach out a hand of love toward all believers of all backgrounds, pleading that we join hands and turn back to YHWH Who will then turn back to us (Zekaryah 1:3 and Hoshea 6:1-3). Let us do so by turning to (Yahshua) Who came to save us from our sins, thereby reconciling us to His Father. Let us heed Messiah's call to "Come out of her", to come out of this world of sin in which we live, and be set apart by YHWH, and unto (Yahshua). It is an invitation to people of all nations, tribes, kindred and tongues: to repent of sin, to accept (Yahshua) as Savior, Master and Sovereign. Let YHWH rule us, let (Yahshua) be our Sovereign, let (Yahshua) graft us into the Olive Tree, the true Yisra'el who truly believe and truly obey YHWH!"

The Institute for Scripture Research
(from the Preface of The Scriptures)

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