How did the Scriptures look when Jesus was a boy? This book is a collection of the best English translations of the books of Scripture that were available at the time of Christ. This first volume contains the book of Genesis as related in the Targum Jonathan (the Jerusalem Targum) as well as the Septuagint in parallel. This allows the modern reader to understand the perspective from the first century Hebrew perspective.

In the earliest days of the Christian Church, the new faith was very different than that found in many churches today. The earliest generations of the Church were led by men who lived with Jesus himself, and they taught the People of God personally - relating events from Christ's life based on their personal experience. The primary Scriptures used by Christians was the Old (Hebrew) Testament, as made available in the Temple and in the Greek Septuagint. They had and shared letters from the Church leaders and understood from their teachings how to be Christians, or 'People of the Way'. What did...