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| Original Title: | תַּנַ"ךְ |
| ISBN: | 0827603665 (ISBN13: 9780827603660) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Paperback | Pages: 1624 pages Rating: 4.38 | 2716 Users | 96 Reviews
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Read our customer guideRegarded throughout the English-speaking world as the standard English translation of the Holy Scriptures, the JPS TANAKH has been acclaimed by scholars, rabbis, lay leaders, Jews, and Christians alike. The JPS TANAKH is an entirely original translation of the Holy Scriptures into contemporary English, based on the Masoretic (the traditional Hebrew) text. It is the culmination of three decades of collaboration by academic scholars and rabbis, representing the three largest branches of organized Judaism in the United States. Not since the third century b.c.e., when 72 elders of the tribes of Israel created the Greek translation of Scriptures known as the Septuagint has such a broad-based committee of Jewish scholars produced a major Bible translation.
In executing this monumental task, the translators made use of the entire range of biblical interpretation, ancient and modern, Jewish and non-Jewish. They drew upon the latest findings in linguistics and archaeology, as well as the work of early rabbinic and medieval commentators, grammarians, and philologians. The resulting text is a triumph of literary style and biblical scholarship, unsurpassed in accuracy and clarity.
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| Title | : | Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures |
| Author | : | Anonymous |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 1624 pages |
| Published | : | November 1st 1985 by The Jewish Publication Society (first published -450) |
| Categories | : | Religion. Judaism. Literature. Jewish |
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Ratings: 4.38 From 2716 Users | 96 ReviewsRate Regarding Books Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures
An excellent resource for students. Very easy to read and it has both the Hebrew and English side by side. All of my teachers have been using this version of the Tanakh.Raised Catholic in the traditional wayeight years of Catholic school with nuns and four years of high school with brothersand being semi-literate I have had reasonable exposure to the stories of Genesis, the prophets, the kings, and other books of The Old Testament but Id never read them in their entirety from start to finish. I took a mis-step in the reading when I began by trying to read The Hebrew Bible in parallel, a chapter at a time, with The King James Old Testament, which wouldnt have
The first time I read a version of the bible from cover to cover was during the last year at Grinnell College while I was taking Chaplain Dennis Haas' two semester sequence on the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures. The text chosen was the academic edition of The Jerusalem Bible, a weighty tome I'd take to bed with me for an hour of so of reading pretty much every night until it was finished. Before bedtime on some nights, however, I did oral readings of another version of the bible, this that of
how would one rate the bible? one wouldn't, one would talk about the translation instead... as a Hebrew speaker, who read the bible in Hebrew, i can say the the JPS translation is the most literal translation of the text, which is saying a-lot, yet this choice to stick to the original text leads to a translation that lacks a lot of the poetic qualities of the text
Mostly focused on Proverbs and Genesis.
Well, it seems funny to give anything less than five stars to the Bible. The new translation by JPS (which actually goes back to the 1960s) is great for an idiomatic rendition in modern English of the Hebrew original, and of course it reflects the insights gained from modern archaeology and the study of ancient near eastern languages (such as Ugaritic and Akkadian), which help us understand some otherwise obscure Hebrew words.And I used to be a big fan of idiomatic translations. These days, I
The tanakh is an amazing read, well worth the time I put into it. I've read the whole of the torah, and then from Joshua through to Isaiah. I've read Ruth and some of the other later books out of order as well. So not a cover to cover read, but I felt satisfied setting it aside at about 65% covered knowing I can always come back to it.For fellow Jews, if you haven't read Joshua, Kings, et al, please do. This tells the full stories of Samson, David, and Solomon, three figures it seems a shame not
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