Bible scholar Joel Hoffman, author of "And God Said: How Translations Conceal the Bible's Original Meaning," told the Rotary Club of Birmingham today that English translations of the Bible's original ...
A ‘gender-sensitive’ translation of the Hebrew Bible has hit digital shelves. Not everyone is happy.
The Revised Jewish Publication Society edition of the Bible uses gender-neutral language when referring to God. (JTA) — A new Bible translation that eschews gendered pronouns for God is now available ...
The difficultiesof translating the Hebrew Bible begin with the first word of Genesis. The King James Bible of 1611 translates Genesis 1:1 as “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” ...
How can one find fresh nuance in an over 2,ooo-year-old book? If the book is the Hebrew Bible, by returning to the original Hebrew. After over two decades, the 83-year-old literary critic and ...
Translating the Bible well is not just a matter of making it sound good, but also representing what actually goes on in the Hebrew literary text faithfully and accurately. (Volodymyr Zakharov / iStock ...
Yael Kanarek’s “Toratah: The Artistry of Transformation,” is now on view at the Midtown Reform congregation. (New York Jewish Week) — What if the first book of the Hebrew Bible had a female God who ...
(RNS) — With an accurate, understandable translation that captures the unique sentence structure, style and syntax of the ancient language, Alter has set a new standard for biblical scholarship. (RNS) ...
“The Catholics have done it; the Protestants have done it; AND NOW THE JEWS ARE GOING TO DO IT!” So began a 1956 solicitation letter for, of all things, a new Jewish translation of the Bible. Fifty ...
IN 1997 Gary Paul Morson, an American professor of Slavic literature, reflected on the work of Constance Garnett, the translator who introduced Tolstoy, Chekhov and Dostoevsky to the English-speaking ...
The Catholic American Bible is set to replace the New American Bible Revised Edition in 2027, becoming the common text for ...
“St. Jerome,” from the workshop of Marinus van Reymerswaele. (Erik Cornelius/Sweden Nationalmuseum, via Wikimedia) St. Jerome, whose feast day is Sept. 30, is a giant in the intellectual history of ...
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