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I'd like to gets started with the old testament this year to study the Jewish God. Are there other books good books to get to know the Jewish God?
I second @Rival's suggestion of getting a good Jewish translation, such as Artscroll, perhaps.I'd like to gets started with the old testament this year to study the Jewish God. Are there other books good books to get to know the Jewish God?
Please, not Artscrolls!I second @Rival's suggestion of getting a good Jewish translation, such as Artscroll, perhaps.
I'll admit I'm not too knowledgeable about the various English translations. I've heard - and seen myself - that JPS is lacking. What have you got against Artscroll?Please, not Artscrolls!
I find it to have an unpleasant bias (so, for example, there rendering of Deut. 26.5 and Lev. 19:33-37).I'll admit I'm not too knowledgeable about the various English translations. I've heard - and seen myself - that JPS is lacking. What have you got against Artscroll?
I also found it skewed a very particular way and I am constantly checking it against other translations.I find it to have an unpleasant bias (so, for example, there rendering of Deut. 26.5 and Lev. 19:33-37).
I find it to have an unpleasant bias (so, for example, there rendering of Deut. 26.5 and Lev. 19:33-37).
Which do you guys prefer?I also found it skewed a very particular way and I am constantly checking it against other translations.
I found Koren Sacks marginally better and enjoyed that it leaves names and places untranslated. It also uses the you/thee distinction, which makes it easier for language buffs like me to figure when Moshe, for example, is speaking to one person or many. They don't seem to have such a biased translation philosophy, but I'm sure a Jewish person would be able to evaluate that much better than me.Which do you guys prefer?
I think it does, but I can't pull passages from memory. I'll keep it in mind the next time I'm going through it because it interests me. That's why I said 'marginally' in my comment, because as with all translations it tends to do this.I would be surprised if the Koren doesn't do the same in certain places, but without the text handy, I can't tell.
I have a mild preference for Robert Alter, but I also like Everette Fox and Richard Elliot Friedman. I’ve found the commentary in Plaut to be exceptional.Which do you guys prefer?
I want to buy his, but £££!I have a mild preference for Robert Alter
Yes, but it strikes me as a corrosive bias.I think that AS starts with certain assumptions and beliefs and incorporates certain baseline positions.
Sometimes you get what you pay for. The 5-volume JPS Commentary is useful as well.I want to buy his, but £££!