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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jewish Publication Society.

Library of Adas Kodesch Shel Emeth (University of Pennsylvania)

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

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

Language:

English

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Bible--Translating.

Bible.

Bible. Old Testament--Versions, Jewish.

Bible. Old Testament.

Bible. Prophets (Neviʼim).

Bible. Hagiographa.

Genre:

Former Course Reserve reading.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Adas Kodesch Shel Emeth (donor) (Libra copy)

Physical Description:

xxvi, 1624 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Torah, Nevi'im, Kethuvim.

Torah, Neviʼim, Ketuvim.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society, 1985.

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.

Contents:

Torah : the Five Books of Moses. Genesis ; Exodus ; Leviticus ; Numbers ; Deuteronomy

Nevi'im : the Prophets. Joshua ; Judges ; I Samuel ; II Samuel ; I Kings ; II Kings ; Isaiah ; Jeremiah ; Ezekiel ; The twelve minor prophets (Hosea ; Joel ; Amos ; Obadiah ; Jonah ; Micah ; Nahum ; Habakkuk ; Zephaniah ; Haggai ; Zechariah ; Malachi)

Kethuvim : the Writings. Psalms ; Proverbs ; Job ; The Song of Songs ; Ruth ; Lamentations ; Ecclesiates ; Esther ; Daniel ; Ezra ; Nehemiah ; I Chronicles ; II Chronicles.

Notes:

Title facing title page: Torah, Nevi'im, Kethuvim = Torah, Neviʼim, Ketuvim.

Local Notes:

Acc.# 200076.

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Presented to the Penn Libraries by the Board of Governors of Adas Kodesch Shel Emeth.

Other Format:

Online version: Bible. O.T. English. Jewish Publication Society. 1985. Tanakh.

ISBN:

0827602529

9780827602526

0827602839

9780827602830

9780827603660

0827603665

0827602642

9780827602649

OCLC:

12105038

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