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The Jewish Study Bible
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?▶ 1:12:26
Topic: Recommended Hebrew Bible study edition
Excerpt“And there is a second edition of the Jewish Study Bible, which incorporates the Jewish Publication Society's Tanakh. So that's a really good translation.”
- Why Can't You Be Like Your Brother?▶ 47:14
Topic: Translations that hew closely to the Masoretic Text
Excerpt“They also have a translation into English that is used in the Jewish Study Bible and the JPS commentary series. They all follow very closely the Leningrad Codex and the Masoretic Text.”
- At-One-Ment▶ 51:58
Topic: Textual basis of Hebrew Bible translations (Leningrad Codex)
Excerpt“In fact, the Jewish Study Bible, and the JPS Tanakh, so the English translation of the Hebrew Bible that is prepared by the Jewish Publication Society, as a rule, they are basing their text on the Leningrad Codex, on the traditional Masoretic Text.”
- 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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