Details

Related name

• Jewish Publication Society of America [Browse]
• Jewish Publication Society [Browse]

Summary note

• 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.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Torah
• Neviʼim
• Kethuvim.

ISBN

0827602529

LCCN

^^^85010006^//r86

OCLC

12105038

RCP

H - S

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