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Found 11 comments on JPS TANAKH: The Holy Scriptures (blue): The New JPS Translation according to the Traditional Hebrew Text:

u/arachnophilia · 5 pointsr/Bible

> Christian bookstore

if you want a different take, try a jewish bible.

this is my favorite translation of the old testament: https://smile.amazon.com/Jewish-Bible-Scriptures-Translation-Traditional/dp/0827603665/

you can read any or all of it online here: http://taggedtanakh.org/Chapter/Index/english-Gen-1

it adheres to the masoretic a bit more strongly than christian bibles (some important passages won't say what you expect them to). it's not purely formal equivalent, but sticks pretty close to the wording where possible, while maintaining a very easy to read and comprehend style.

u/bbenja4 · 4 pointsr/Judaism

The Jewish Publication Society version is very good English translation. The foot notes are very helpful. They also have a bilingUAL edition.

u/SabaziosZagreus · 3 pointsr/Jewish

The New Jewish Publication Society Tanakh (New JPS or NJPS) from 1985 is the most widely used translation in non-Orthodox and some Orthodox circles. You can purchase the English version here or a Hebrew-English version here. You can read it online here.

Just make sure you're reading the 1985 New Jewish Publication Society Tanakh (New JPS or NJPS) rather than the 1917 Jewish Publication Society Tanakh. The 1917 JPS Tanakh is an older and outdated translation which isn't as good and isn't widely used anymore.

As a note, the Torah is the first five books of the Tanakh. The Tanakh contains the entire Hebrew Bible (Torah, Prophets, and Writings). If you just want the Torah, here is the NJPS Torah.

u/gikatilla · 3 pointsr/Judaism

as flawed as it is, the most accessible translation out there of the Hebrew Bible is the JPS: this one is the newest.

for a fascinating, sometimes awkward, but totally totally literal translation of the Torah (only the first give), check out Everett Fox's translation

lastly, got to put a plug in for a Jewish translation of the NT recently published called The Jewish Annotated New Testament - it may help clarify Jewish readings of Christian scripture and vice versa.

u/VividLotus · 2 pointsr/DebateReligion

Obviously the first place to start with any religion is with its sacred text(s). For a good and (IMO) unbiased translation, try the JPS Tanakh.

One of my main specific positions is the fact that the extreme misogyny present within many denominations of Judaism is a relatively recent development. We are fortunate to know a ton about the early days of the Jewish religion, and of pre-Jewish religion in that area of the world. I wish more people would read books such as Sarah the Priestess to know more about this fact.

u/PeacePig · 2 pointsr/bestof

That's an interesting point. I shouldn't have said he was always in heaven. But he was always welcome there, for he was a divine being among God's council. Also, you have to be careful when trying to read translations written recently/written by believers (by which I mean a lot of scribes, over the years, have "cleaned" stuff up or altered stuff slightly to suit their needs (a good example is when they changed "sons of El [Canaanite God]" to "sons of Israel" in order to erase the memory of Israelites' polytheistic/henotheistic origins. I can't remember which passage they specifically changed.) They can often stray from the source text. I just googled the passage you mentioned to quickly see and was surprised to see it straight up call him Satan. In my translations, which are for scholarly purposes, he is called ha'Satan.

Check these out if you're curious.

Tanakh as translated by the Jewish Publication Society. Quite good. I believe translated directly from the oldest manuscripts available of each text.

Harper Collins Study Bible. This is a great one. Not a typical "study bible" that you may be used to seeing. This is for academic studies. It also has some great essays and explanations of stuff. Very, very nice text.

u/Numb3r_6 · 1 pointr/todayilearned

Ah, but according to my biblical studies professor at university, the english versions of the bible were translated from Greek and Latin. As I understand it, nobody in the world even knew enough old Hebrew to translate the old texts. Therefore, the bibles used in western culture are bad translations of Greek and Latin, and that there is a newer translation based on old Hebrew that reads a lot differently. I will try to find it.

Here it is for sale: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0827603665/ref=redir_mdp_mobile?pc_redir=T1

u/namer98 · 1 pointr/Christianity

My wife said she recommends this book for the most literal translation she can think of.

u/JoanOfArk77 · 1 pointr/The_Donald

> If this was important this would be in the Bible


My point above is that it IS in the Bible.


Before Christ was born, we read in the Bible that Israel had a civil war.


In that war, Israel was divided into TWO nations.


The northern nation then, in the Bible, is called Israel.


This nation consisted of 10 northern tribes.


The Southern nation was then called Judah.. a completely different nation after the war and before Christ. All of this is actually in the Bible.


Then, also in the Bible we read that the Northern ten tribes were abducted by the Assyrians north of them. God also warns the lower two tribes that they will be abducted to Babylon for seventy years soon. Later we read about how Judah was taken captive, and then brought back after seventy years by King Cyrus, but, everyone pretends we never hear about the northern nation of Israel again.


Simply not true.


Jesus actually says he came for the LOST SHEEP of Israel.


Now, lets deal with that Talmud.


The Talmud is not the Jewish Bible.


Jesus was a Jew, as were the Apostles.


They lived in Judah.


Jesus is prophesied to be the "Lion of the Tribe of Judah"


You will never see any of them quoting from the Talmud, and there is good reason for that.


The Jewish Bible is called the Tanakh, and this, is identical to the Christian old Testament... only difference being the reversal of the order of two books in the Torah (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, and Numbers,in one, and in the other the order of the last two books is switched)


You WILL see the Tanakh being quoted by Jesus, and the Apostles, because these are what Christ called "the scriptures". They are still called the Scriptures today, as you can see here at Amazon: If you did not know this, don't feel bad. I did not either until I studied it. And most of my Jewish friends are quite surprised to find out that Christians are running around with their Jewish bible, word for word, in the Christian Old Testament. It looks like the truth of it is... all of us have had the truth hidden from us, by those in history who would benefit from it... Jews, and Christians alike.


Since I'm the scientist/lawyer... everything is about the evidence type, I happened to go digging. I hold NO judgement over anyone who has been misled about any of this, because I was also. It takes digging to get to the truth. Here is the Jewish bible today. Order one. I did. Look at it. It's evidence.


https://www.amazon.com/Jewish-Bible-Scriptures-Translation-Traditional/dp/0827603665



Here is where I am digging now, and the situation looks quite interesting, but have not made my mind up about it.



When the Jews in Judah, including Christ and the Apostles were running around in Israel, as we think of it today, they were actually reading from the Tanakh, AKA the Christian Old Testament, AKA the Septuagint that was canonized 200 years earlier, by submission to the great library of Alexandria.
So... what is the Talmud?

VERY BRIEFLY, because there is a lot to know about it, and I am not an expert,.


The Talmud, is a series of Jewish Commentaries on the Tanakh. So, calling the Talmud a Jewish Bible, is a lot like calling the Book of Enoch, or one of our Commentary books "The Bible"


After Christ, in 70 AD the temple was destroyed by the Romans, and the Jews could no longer abide by their religious rules in the Tanakh, because they had no temple to do the animal sacrifices.


This led to a necessary change in Jewish laws and customs, and the Commentaries that created those changes in addition to some oral histories became the Talmud.


But, if you go to a synagogue today, you will find the Torah standing in front of the altar, not the Talmud. And if you want to buy the Jewish Scriptures on Amazon, you have to order the Tanakh, not the Talmud.


The Talmud came much later in history. Here is more about the two versions that were created and when


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfMKceKHids


Jews are not a waste of our time. Jewish people are our brothers. I am going to cut this here, and bring in a quote from the Bible itself when the Apostle Paul was asked if God had abandoned the Jews in favor of Christians. This is currently called "Replacement Theology" and I have studied it enough to know that it is flawed. Still, you can't afford to believe me, so, I am going to actually show you how the Apostle Paul answered this very question. Let the Bible interpret the Bible... as they say.

u/JoeFarmer · 1 pointr/Judaism

Thank you! Im looking for the nJPS and I am a little confused. Is nJPS a different publisher than JPS, or is it just JPS's new translation? Is this the one you're referencing?