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[Tanakh] = Tanakh : a new translation of the Holy Scriptures according to the traditional Hebrew text.

Title: [Tanakh] = Tanakh : a new translation of the Holy Scriptures according to the traditional Hebrew text.
Publication: Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society, 1985.

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Description

xxvi, 1624 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

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.

Uniform Title

Bible. Old Testament. English. Jewish Publication Society. 1985.

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Contents

Torah -- Neviʼim -- Kethuvim.

ISBN

0827602529

LCCN

^^^85010006^//r86

OCLC

12105038

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library