Jewish Bible Translations

Author : Abigail Gillman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226477862

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A History of German Jewish Bible Translation by Abigail Gillman Pdf

Between 1780 and 1937, Jews in Germany produced numerous new translations of the Hebrew Bible into German. Intended for Jews who were trilingual, reading Yiddish, Hebrew, and German, they were meant less for religious use than to promote educational and cultural goals. Not only did translations give Jews vernacular access to their scripture without Christian intervention, but they also helped showcase the Hebrew Bible as a work of literature and the foundational text of modern Jewish identity. This book is the first in English to offer a close analysis of German Jewish translations as part of a larger cultural project. Looking at four distinct waves of translations, Abigail Gillman juxtaposes translations within each that sought to achieve similar goals through differing means. As she details the history of successive translations, we gain new insight into the opportunities and problems the Bible posed for different generations and gain a new perspective on modern German Jewish history.

Author : Leonard Greenspoon
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780827618572

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Jewish Bible Translations by Leonard Greenspoon Pdf

Jewish Bible Translations is the first book to examine Jewish Bible translations from the third century BCE to our day. It is an overdue corrective of an important story that has been regularly omitted or downgraded in other histories of Bible translation. Examining a wide range of translations over twenty-four centuries, Leonard Greenspoon delves into the historical, cultural, linguistic, and religious contexts of versions in eleven languages: Arabic, Aramaic, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Russian, Spanish, and Yiddish. He profiles many Jewish translators, among them Buber, Hirsch, Kaplan, Leeser, Luzzatto, Mendelssohn, Orlinsky, and Saadiah Gaon, framing their aspirations within the Jewish and larger milieus in which they worked. Greenspoon differentiates their principles, styles, and techniques—for example, their choice to emphasize either literal reflections of the Hebrew or distinctive elements of the vernacular language—and their underlying rationales. As he highlights distinctive features of Jewish Bible translations, he offers new insights regarding their shared characteristics and their limits. Additionally, Greenspoon shows how profoundly Jewish translators and interpreters influenced the style and diction of the King James Bible. Accessible and authoritative for all from beginners to scholars, Jewish Bible Translations enables readers to make their own informed evaluations of individual translations and to holistically assess Bible translation within Judaism.

Author : Jon Douglas Levenson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691155692

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Inheriting Abraham by Jon Douglas Levenson Pdf

"Levenson provides a masterful reading of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic thinking that yielded three different portraits of Abraham. He sets the record straight about the biblical patriarch."---Sidney H. Griffith, author of The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque: Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam --Book Jacket.

Author : Marc Zvi Brettler
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780827610019

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How to Read the Bible by Marc Zvi Brettler Pdf

Master Bible scholar and teacher Marc Brettler argues that today's contemporary readers can only understand the ancient Hebrew Scripture by knowing more about the culture that produced it. And so Brettler unpacks the literary conventions, ideological assumptions, and historical conditions that inform the biblical text and demonstrates how modern critical scholarship and archaeological discoveries shed light on this fascinating and complex literature. Brettler surveys representative biblical texts from different genres to illustrate how modern scholars have taught us to "read" these texts. Using the "historical-critical method" long popular in academia, he guides us in reading the Bible as it was read in the biblical period, independent of later religious norms and interpretive traditions. Understanding the Bible this way lets us appreciate it as an interesting text that speaks in multiple voices on profound issues. This book is the first "Jewishly sensitive" introduction to the historical-critical method. Unlike other introductory texts, the Bible that this book speaks about is the Jewish one -- with the three-part TaNaKH arrangement, the sequence of books found in modern printed Hebrew editions, and the chapter and verse enumerations used in most modern Jewish versions of the Bible. In an afterword, the author discusses how the historical-critical method can help contemporary Jews relate to the Bible as a religious text in a more meaningful way.

Author : Leonard Jay Greenspoon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Bible
ISBN : 0827618565

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Jewish Bible Translations by Leonard Jay Greenspoon Pdf

"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"--

Author : S. C. Daley
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004391765

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The Textual Basis of English Translations of the Hebrew Bible by S. C. Daley Pdf

Foreword by A. Schenker S. C. Daley’s book, The Textual Basis of English Translations of the Hebrew Bible, moves us beyond existing uncertainties about the textual basis of modern Bible translations to a fresh understanding of the text-critical constitution of well-known English translations of the past four hundred years. Most translations depart from the Masoretic Text selectively, and in-depth analysis of their textual decisions leads (1) to the identification of distinct periods in the textual history of the English Bible, (2) to a classification of the translations by eclectic type, and (3) to the observation that each translation is ultimately unique from a text-critical perspective. The study then revisits the topic of the text to be translated in Bibles intended for the wider public.

Author : Tessa Rajak
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780191609688

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Translation and Survival by Tessa Rajak Pdf

The translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek was the first major translation in Western culture. Its significance was far-reaching. Without a Greek Bible, European history would have been entirely different - no Western Jewish diaspora and no Christianity. Translation and Survival is a literary and social study of the ancient creators and receivers of the translations, and about their impact. The Greek Bible served Jews who spoke Greek, and made the survival of the first Jewish diaspora possible; indeed, the translators invented the term 'diaspora'. It was a tool for the preservation of group identity and for the expression of resistance. It invented a new kind of language and many new terms. The Greek Bible translations ended up as the Christian Septuagint, taken over along with the entire heritage of Hellenistic Judaism, during the process of the Church's long-drawn-out parting from the Synagogue. Here, a brilliant creation is restored to its original context and to its first owners.

Author : Dr. Phillip Goble
Publisher : AFI International Publishers
Page : 1249 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9780939341047

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The Orthodox Jewish Bible by Dr. Phillip Goble Pdf

THE ORTHODOX JEWISH TANAKH TORAH NEVI’IM KETUVIM BOTH TESTAMENTS The Orthodox Jewish Bible is an English language version that applies Yiddish and Hasidic cultural expressions to the Messianic Bible.

Author : Amy-Jill Levine,Marc Zvi Brettler
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780062560179

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The Bible With and Without Jesus by Amy-Jill Levine,Marc Zvi Brettler Pdf

The editors of The Jewish Annotated New Testament show how and why Jews and Christians read many of the same Biblical texts – including passages from the Pentateuch, the Prophets, and the Psalms – differently. Exploring and explaining these diverse perspectives, they reveal more clearly Scripture’s beauty and power. Esteemed Bible scholars and teachers Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Z. Brettler take readers on a guided tour of the most popular Hebrew Bible passages quoted in the New Testament to show what the texts meant in their original contexts and then how Jews and Christians, over time, understood those same texts. Passages include the creation of the world, the role of Adam and Eve, the Suffering Servant of Isiah, the book of Jonah, and Psalm 22, whose words, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me,” Jesus quotes as he dies on the cross. Comparing various interpretations – historical, literary, and theological - of each ancient text, Levine and Brettler offer deeper understandings of the original narratives and their many afterlives. They show how the text speaks to different generations under changed circumstances, and so illuminate the Bible’s ongoing significance. By understanding the depth and variety by which these passages have been, and can be, understood, The Bible With and Without Jesus does more than enhance our religious understandings, it helps us to see the Bible as a source of inspiration for any and all readers.

Author : W. Gunther Plaut
Publisher : New York : Leo Baeck Institute
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Bible
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008854098

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German-Jewish Bible Translations by W. Gunther Plaut Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1136 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Bible
ISBN : OCLC:236046545

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The Holy Scriptures According to the Masoretic Text by Anonim Pdf

Author : Magdalena Waligórska,Tara Kohn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110550788

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Jewish Translation - Translating Jewishness by Magdalena Waligórska,Tara Kohn Pdf

This interdisciplinary volume looks at one of the central cultural practices within the Jewish experience: translation. With contributions from literary and cultural scholars, historians, and scholars of religion, the book considers different aspects of Jewish translation, starting from the early translations of the Torah, to the modern Jewish experience of migration, state-building and life in the Diaspora. The volume addresses the question of how Jews have used translation to pursue different cultural and political agendas, such as Jewish nationalism, the development of Yiddish as a literary language, and the collection of Holocaust testimonies. It also addresses how non-Jews have translated elements of the Judaic tradition to create an image of the Other. Covering a wide span of contexts, including religion, literature, photography, music and folk practices, and featuring an interview section with authors and translators, the volume will be of interest not only to scholars of Jewish studies, translation and cultural studies, but also a wider interested audience.

Author : Doron B. Cohen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004243477

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The Japanese Translations of the Hebrew Bible by Doron B. Cohen Pdf

The Japanese Translations of the Hebrew Bible: History, Inventory and Analysis tells the story of the translation of the Bible into Japanese against the background of the transplanting of Christianity in Japan. It includes a detailed inventory of Old Testament translations, with linguistic and theological analyses of choice verses.

Author : Aviya Kushner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9780385520829

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The Grammar of God by Aviya Kushner Pdf

"The author recalls how, after becoming very familiar with the Biblical Old Testament in its original Hebrew growing up, an encounter with an English language version led her on a ten-year project of examining various translations of the Old Testament and their histories, "--Novelist.

Author : Joseph Gaer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Bible
ISBN : PSU:000028080480

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The Jewish Bible for Family Reading by Joseph Gaer Pdf