JPS Hebrew-English Tanakh : the traditional Hebrew text and the new JPS translation (original 1917; edition 2000)

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This is the 2003 paperback edition with two columns---Hebrew and English---on each page. It contains prefaces from the 1999 Hebrew-English edition and the 1985 English edition. At the back is a list of the week Torah readings with their accompanying Haftarot followed by the readings for special Shabbatot and holidays.

raizel | Feb 10, 2020 |

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The newest JPS translation of the Tanach has two wonderful forwards explaining the various translations and texts used to verify the translations. The maps in the back are also nice, though I found myself wishing for a more complete map of the Abrahamic period.
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FourFreedoms | May 17, 2019 |

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ShiraDest | Mar 6, 2019 |

This is my preferred English translation of the Hebrew Bible. You're still better off going directly from the Hebrew, but in general I find this translation to be most excellent. (

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andrlik | Apr 24, 2018 |

If anyone quotes me any more crap from the Old Testament (which this essentially is) purporting to tell me or anyone else how to live, I'm going to quiz them about the last time they sacrificed a calf or a goat or something to God because He seems pretty big on that stuff. If you're going to try to run other people's lives by this stuff, I suggest you start running your own by ALL of it, not just selected passages, first. Some decent stories in parts, some decent poetry in Psalms some wiggy proverbs in Proverbs and lots of lists (especially in Kings and Numbers and especially of people to displeased the Lord -- a lot). (

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AliceAnna | Oct 24, 2014 |

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MEOWDate | Jul 15, 2014 |

Great read of the Hebrew Scriptures for a Christian particularly as the translation is not Christianized in the least. Fresh translation. (

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disneypope | Jan 2, 2010 |

Beautiful edition with color plates. The cover I scanned is silvery metal with enamel and set stones. I will always be reading this book. (

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lisa_marli | Jun 7, 2009 |

Reissued with corrections of minor errors (

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ME_Dictionary | Mar 19, 2020 |

Logos Library

birdsnare | May 16, 2019 |

Logos Library

birdsnare | May 16, 2019 |

Organized by book, chapter and verse in prose form

Folkshul | Jan 15, 2011 |

Organized by book, chapter and verse in prose form

Folkshul | Jan 15, 2011 |

New JPS English Translation from the traditional Hebrew text. Includes Torah, Nevi'im (Prophets), Kethuvim (The Writings)

Folkshul | Jan 15, 2011 |

The Jewish Publication Society – The Holy Scriptures compiled by Hebrew Scholars.

DLUC | Nov 12, 2010 |

OberlinSWAP | Aug 1, 2015 |

The translation Miles uses in God: A Biography; seems much more accessible than the standard King James version. Worth checking out. Find it in a bookstore first maybe.

AlCracka | Apr 2, 2013 |

Quote from the preface p. xvii, "After World War II, when the Jewish Publication Society began to consider a new edition of the Bible, the idea of a modest revision of the 1917 translation met with resistance, and the concept of a completely new translation gradually took hold. . .Harry M. Orlinsky, Professor of Bible at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (New York), was asked to serve as editor-in-chief. . ., along with H. L. Ginsberg, Professor of Bible at the Jewish Theological Seminary, and Ephraim A. Speiser, Professor of Semitic and Oriental Languages at the University of Pennsylvania, as fellow editors. Associated with them were three rabbis: Max Arzt, Bernard J. Bamberger, and Harry Freedman, representing the Conservative, Reform, and Orthodox branches of organized Jewish religious life. Solomon Grayzel, editor of the Jewish Publication Society, served as secretary of the committee." This work includes a glossary for the footnotes and a listing of abbreviation and terms.

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