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Best Hebrew English translation of the Tanakh?
- Thread starter arcanum
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Depends on what you're looking for.
The Jewish Study Bible is a good choice if you're going for an academic POV, and Fox's Five Book of Moses keeps the poetry and wordplay of the Hebrew.
roger1440
I do stuff
I use the Jewish Study Bible in the PDF format. I had found it using a file sharing program called FrostWire. Over the years I have downloaded dozens upon dozens of books from the internet. Best of all, they were FREE. It is much easier to quote from a book in a PDF format then a printed version of the same book. Sometimes I find books just by searching Google. Example: Gone With The Wind PDF.
The Jewish Study Bible: Featuring The Jewish Publication Society TANAKH Translation: Adele Berlin, Marc Zvi Brettler, Michael Fishbane: 9780195297515: Amazon.com: Books
arcanum
Active Member
I guess I'm hoping to find a translation that isn't purely dry and academic and that encompasses the whole Tanakh and not just the Torah. As someone who has only been exposed to King James and similar clone versions of the OT, I'd like to read it through more of a Jewish/Hebrew lens than a Christian one.
arcanum
Active Member
Thanks, I'll definitely check that out.I use the Jewish Study Bible in the PDF format. I had found it using a file sharing program called FrostWire. Over the years I have downloaded dozens upon dozens of books from the internet. Best of all, they were FREE. It is much easier to quote from a book in a PDF format then a printed version of the same book. Sometimes I find books just by searching Google. Example: Gone With The Wind PDF.
The Jewish Study Bible: Featuring The Jewish Publication Society TANAKH Translation: Adele Berlin, Marc Zvi Brettler, Michael Fishbane: 9780195297515: Amazon.com: Books
roger1440
I do stuff
Just curious, what Christian Bible do you use?
Perhaps you could have this chat elsewhere.
arcanum
Active Member
I've been reading from the Pe****a which is what the Christians in Syria read from and is supposed to have been translated from the Aramaic. But prior to that mostly the King James version, though I've also read from the Septuagint and the Jerusalem bible.
arcanum
Active Member
Oops, sorry you are right
Levite
Higher and Higher
Plus one for The Jewish Study Bible, though it's not without its flaws. Still probably the best whole Tanach translation out there. But Fox's Five Books of Moses is really worth getting: no other translation really matches it for coming close to capturing in English the experience of reading it in Hebrew.
Really?
To the best of my knowledge the JSB contains the same JPS translation as found in Etz Hayim, Plaut, etc., and does not contain Hebrew text.
Levite
Higher and Higher
To be fair, I believe both the Etz Hayim and the Plaut have (different) modified and adapted versions of the JPS translation. But yeah, I was surprised to read the above also, as I have not encountered a JSB edition with side-by-side, which would be very nice.
I should have noted
From the Etz Hayim Introduction (pg. xviii): From Plaut (pg. xxv):
What HexBomb might have meant by
"It really helped with parallel readings, and trying to learn Hebrew."
is still unclear to me.
Levite
Higher and Higher
OK, I guess I was wrong. I could swear I saw differences, but of course I can't bring them to mind, so I will just assume my mind was playing tricks on me.
It was probably that centerfold picture of Plaut ...