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JPS Tanakh (New JPS Translation)
Recommended on Data Over Dogma in “Will the Best Bible Please Stand Up?” (June 19, 2023). Also recommended in a patron-only bonus episode.
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On the show
- Will the Best Bible Please Stand Up?▶ 1:12:10
Topic: Recommended Hebrew Bible translation
Excerpt“Another really good one is the Jewish Publication Society Tanakh. Tanakh is an acronym for Torah, Nevi'im, Ketuvim, or the three different portions of the Hebrew Bible.”
- What IS the Bible?▶ 9:02
Topic: Translation/manuscript approach to the Hebrew Bible
Excerpt“The Jewish Study Bible and the JPS Tanakh sticks a lot more dogmatically to the Leningrad Codex, which is kind of the representative manuscript of the Masoretic tradition…”
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In patron bonus episodes
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