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Jewish Bible translations : personalities, passions, politics, progress / Leonard Greenspoon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Greenspoon, Leonard J. (Leonard Jay), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--History.
- Jews.
- Judaism--History.
- Judaism.
- Bible. Old Testament--Translating.
- Bible.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (325 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : The Jewish Publication Society, [2020]
- Summary:
- "Jewish Bible Translations is the first book-length history and analysis of Jewish Bible translations from the third century BCE to our day. Greenspoon delves into the historical, cultural, linguistic, and religious contexts of translations in eleven languages: Arabic, Aramaic, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Russian, Spanish, and Yiddish"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The septuagint
- The targums
- Bible translation into arabic
- Bible translation into Yiddish and German
- Translations into other selected languages
- English-language versions
- Non-Jewish translations with Jewish features.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-273) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0-8276-1857-3
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