JPS TANAKH: The Holy Scriptures (blue): The New JPS Translation according to the Traditional Hebrew Text

by The Jewish Publication Society (Editor)

Paperback, 1985

Status

Available

Publication

JEWISH PUBLICATON SOCIETY (1985), First special format ed., 1624 pages

Description

The 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 America. Not since the third century B.C.E., when seventy-two 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.… (more)

ISBN

9780827603660

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Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

1917

Physical description

1622 p.; 6.85 inches

Barcode

1017

DDC/MDS

220
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