JPS version

[By Grace]

Does anyone have the JPS (Jewish Publication Society) version, and if so, would you recommend it? Is it sufficiently better than other versions(CJB, etc.) to justify buying yet another translation?

[Sephania]

I have a copy from the year Israel became a nation again. Also you can use the online version if you want to hold off buying for awhile. It is strangely like the KJV in some translations so if you are used to the KJV then it would be a help. I use it for comparison and David Stern supposedly used it to "help" in his translation but not exclusivly.

Go here http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0.htm

It is translated from the Masoretic Text which is different from the Septuagint.

[Rabbi Klein]

The JPS isn't much of a scholaly translation but more of a common man's translation. In Rabbinic circles it isn't regarded as the best study tool. Of course the Hebrew is always about as close as you're going to get. :)

R. Klein

[WildCelt]

The JPS isn't much of a scholaly translation but more of a common man's translation. In Rabbinic circles it isn't regarded as the best study tool. Of course the Hebrew is always about as close as you're going to get. :)

R. Klein

May I ask which one is? ArtScroll?

[Talmidah]

Does anyone have the JPS (Jewish Publication Society) version, and if so, would you recommend it? Is it sufficiently better than other versions(CJB, etc.) to justify buying yet another translation?
I have a couple of JPS versions and rarely, if ever, open them unless just comparing a verse to my other versions. The 1985 version is a little better than the 1917, but I pretty much stick with my Artscroll and Judaica Press versions.

[By Grace]

but I pretty much stick with my Artscroll and Judaica Press versions.
I'm having a hard time finding this on amazon, unless you're referring to Judaica Press Children's Torah. Can you give me some more info?

TIA,

[Zacharias]

For Artscroll: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0899062695/qid=1095887957/sr=ka-3/ref=pd_ka_3/103-1689942-6917408

[insaneinthebrain]

Actually, chabad.org uses the Judaica Press translation (http://www.chabad.org/library/archive/LibraryArchive.asp?AID=63255). Why pay for what you can use for free? ;)

[Talmidah]

I'm having a hard time finding this on amazon, unless you're referring to Judaica Press Children's Torah. Can you give me some more info?

TIA,
I have it on CD-Rom, but you can also access it from Chabad's website.

[Talmidah]

Actually, chabad.org uses the Judaica Press translation (http://www.chabad.org/library/archive/LibraryArchive.asp?AID=63255). Why pay for what you can use for free? ;)
Hehe you beat me to it ;) Anyway, I usually use their online JP when I'm at work and need to look something up, but at home, I use the CD-Rom if I'm not online.

[By Grace]

Actually, chabad.org uses the Judaica Press translation (http://www.chabad.org/library/archive/LibraryArchive.asp?AID=63255). Why pay for what you can use for free? ;)
Excellent! Thank you!

BTW, how do you get your link to be your own text rather than the website's address?

[insaneinthebrain]

BTW, how do you get your link to be your own text rather than the website's address?http://www.christianforums.com/misc.php?do=bbcode#url

[By Grace]

Let's see...

Where does this go? (http://www.clarifyingchristianity.com/dinos.shtml)

[By Grace]

It worked! Thanks, IITB!

[Henaynei]

One reason we have a JPS printed before the Holocaust is that there were some changes in the translation in T'Nakhs printed after 1944.....

[WildCelt]

One reason we have a JPS printed before the Holocaust is that there were some changes in the translation in T'Nakhs printed after 1944.....

Wow, that is peculiar. What changed?

[ShirChadash]

Brainy Rawks!

Very Kewl!!!