Reddit mentions of The Five Books of Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy (The Schocken Bible, Volume 1)

here it is, if your lazy. This reminds me, my parents have two copies, I should pilfer one.

Alter is wonderful. If you have the time, I'd also highly recommend the available Everett Fox translations. His Genesis, particularly, is breathtaking.

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.

I have been told by many that the Fox translation is the most faithful to the poetry and the meaning and it keeps as much of word play of the original as possible.

I'm not one to defend quite409, but in this I have to agree. I never felt the exact pronunciation was important for the same reason that we say Jesus. We don't say Yeshuah or Yehoshuah and are not ever certain if had 2 or 3 syllables in his day. And yet "there is not another name under heaven by which we must be saved."

Yahweh is not accepted by all bible scholars. Everett Fox, who wrote the Five Books of Moses ( https://www.amazon.com/Five-Books-Moses-Leviticus-Deuteronomy/dp/0805211195 )- an amazing translation that tries to pay attention to the word play, puns, and onomatopoeia that came from listening to the words, which was the experience most of it's audience had.- in his forward, discussed which version of the name was best and his was Yahve I think.

In any case, I don't think it matters from a biblical standpoint.

And I especially dont think it matters since I don't believe in the bible or in Jehovah in the slightest. No skin off my back.

Even if I did, I'd never serve him. He is a sociopath.

I was gonna say something to u/quite409 about birthdays and pagan origins. But, eh. Not worth it.

Not exactly what you are looking for, but you may want to check out The Five Books of Moses, a translation of the Torah by Everett Fox. This is my personal favourite translation. It's unique in the English language in that Mr Fox's primary goal in translation was to keep the poetry, vocabulary, and syntax of the Hebrew as closely replicated as possible. It's really quite a beautiful read, even apart from it being the Torah, and gives a huge amount of insight as to recurring themes, wordplay, and historical contexts that have been lost in translations aimed to make it more 'easily understood'. There are also many, many footnotes involved.

Apologies if I haven't been clear in my previous points. I would encourage you to read through the entire Jewish Old Testament (the TaNaKh) and see if you find a different emphasis in the flow of the text vs. the christian old testament. It would be very hard to understand my argument without really getting a sense for how the order of the books can shape the focus of the text. The key here is you have to read it all. Most christians like to read snippets from a book in the bible and then find some applied truth for themselves but these books (for the most part) were not written as fortune cookies (exception of psalms proverbs and songs of solomon) but were written as books that should be read in their entirety. My point rests heavily on understanding how editing the order of these books alters the narrative and philosophical emphasis, so I would encourage you to really look at the TaNaKh or for starters even Everrett Fox's The Five Books of Moses which is a transliteration of the Torah and see what these texts were to the people who wrote them.

As for your requests, there are many other gospels from different sects of christianity. The two that come to mind for me are the gospel of thomas and the gospel of judas. For further contrast look into the church of ethiopia to get a sense of what a non-western christian church is and how it differs theologically from the christianity that originated in Rome.