As I said, on my Theology course we're told often the NRSV is best one, but that the RSV is just as good, really, and one lecturer preferred it. I use the ESV and the RSV Catholic edition.
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Actually, I have a Torah class starting in about five minutes. I'll return to this when it's over.
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
BTW, you can get & use the RSV on-line as a search engine, and I use it all the time here at RF: Bible: Revised Standard Version
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metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
I use the JPS Study Bible and also the Stone Edition Chumash and Tanakh.
I don't quite despise the Stone Edition, but ...
IndigoChild5559
Loving God and my neighbor as myself.
Yeap. Somewhere in the neighborhood of about 10 years.
I have a real issue with ArtScroll. I always preferred Koren, when it comes to more popular editions; their Siddurs are better, too, imo. I don't know why AS has so much prestige because I find their translations dreadful and their other materials so-so.
The NRSV is over three decades old. It's worth noting that Harry Orlinsky was on its translation team.
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RestlessSoul
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Here's Hunter S Thompson on the KJV in general, and Revelation in particular; I share his sentiments...
"I love the wild power of the language and the purity of the madness that governs it and makes it music"
"A serious piece of work, a thunderhead mix of Bolero, Sam Coleridge, and the ravings of Cato the Elder. I was awed, once again, by the fearful intensity of the language."
"I love the wild power of the language and the purity of the madness that governs it and makes it music"
"A serious piece of work, a thunderhead mix of Bolero, Sam Coleridge, and the ravings of Cato the Elder. I was awed, once again, by the fearful intensity of the language."
I'm not at all sure why, but I've never looked at Koren. I may need to pick up the Magerman Edition.
I'd appreciate it if you would share its rendering of
- Leviticus 19:34 and
- Deuteronomy 26:5
I've not come across a version with commentary.
And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, you shall not wrong him.
But the stranger that dwells with you shall be to you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for you were strangers in the land of Miżrayim: I am the Lord your God.
And thou shalt speak and say before the Lord thy God, An Arammian nomad was my father, and he went down to Miżrayim, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:
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Finnish 1933/38, because I think it is more accurate than others that I know. World English Bible is also very good, in my opinion.
IndigoChild5559
Loving God and my neighbor as myself.
Interesting. Thanks.
Yes, as I said before I've not found one with commentary. What is there is not really worth it. I had it as a go to cheaper Jewish translation and bought commentary separately. I just couldn't really stand ArtScroll. I have commentary by various people, old and new, in separate books. One of the most annoying combinations was a Chumash with really good commentary by various commentators, but used JPS 1917. I can't remember what it was called.
metis
aged ecumenical anthropologist
ArtScroll reflects orthodoxy, whereas I personally prefer the JPS Study Bible.