He taught the first course in 'Judaism and Christianity' at Fuller Theological Seminary and was a professor at UCLA.
[2] Toward the end of his life, Stern emigrated to Jerusalem, where he remained active in Israel's Messianic Jewish community until his death.
[3] As well as being a sometime surfer, David Stern was also a member of the UCLA Bruin Mountaineers in the mid 1950s.
Stern's major work is the Complete Jewish Bible, his English translation of the Tanakh and New Testament (which he, like many Messianic Jews, refers to as the "B'rit Hadashah", from the Hebrew term ברית חדשה, often translated "new covenant", used in Jeremiah 31).
For the New Testament, Greek proper nouns are often replaced with transliterated Hebrew words.