334 Bible 5 – Jewish Bible Translations
Today we are going to take a brief break from manuscripts and dip our toes into the pool of Bible translations. Specifically, we’ll take a look at six of the most prominent Jewish translations of the Hebrew Bible, including: Jewish Publication So
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Show Notes
Today we are going to take a brief break from manuscripts and dip our toes into the pool of Bible translations. Specifically, we’ll take a look at six of the most prominent Jewish translations of the Hebrew Bible, including:
- Jewish Publication Society (1917)
- Koren Jerusalem Bible (1961)
- New Jewish Publication Society (1985)
- Artscroll’s Stone Tanach (1996)
- Schocken Bible of Everett Fox (1995, 2014)
- Robert Alter’s translation (2018)
For each of these versions we’ll get a brief sense of the translation style from the preface and then we’ll compare four texts from each: Genesis 1.1-3; Psalm 23.1-2; Isaiah 9.6; and Micah 7.20.
—— Books ——
- Jewish Publication Society Bible (1917)
- New Jewish Publication Society Bible (1985)
- Koren Jerusalem Bible
- Artscroll Stone Tanach
- Everett Fox‘s Schocken Bible
- Robert Alter’s three volume Bible with commentary
- The Song of Songs by Ariel and Chana Bloch (translation and commentary)
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