Tanakh (1917)

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For nearly a century, the 1917 translation of the Tanakh from the Jewish Publication Society has remained a prominent English translation of the Hebrew Bible. The translation project began in 1882 with twenty-two translators working under the editorship of Marcus Jastrow, and expanded to include a committee of translators from both sides of the Atlantic led by Max Margolis. The 1917 Tanakh takes into account the Septuagint, the Targums, the Peshitta, the Vulgate, and numerous other translation traditions. It offers a uniquely Jewish translation for the English-speaking world—benefiting not only Jewish readers, but also Protestants and Catholics. The resulting work is still in wide use nearly a century after its original publication.

Key Features Included

With Logos, you can search the 1917 Tanakh in an easy-to-use digital format
Use the Bible search function to perform simple word or phrase searches, or more complex proximity, data type, or field searches
Include the 1917 Tanakh in reports and features in your Passage Guide
With the Parallel Bible Versions report, you can line up as many versions as you own for in-depth verse-by-verse comparison of the differences between them
Use the 1917 Tanakh as your preferred version in a Bible reading plan if you have the Personal Bible Study Tools Addin (available in most base packages).
Read and study the 1917 Tanakh side-by-side with the 1985 Tanakh or the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia

From the Preface

The [1917 Tanakh] aims to combine the spirit of Jewish tradition with the results of biblical scholarship, ancient, medieval, and modern. It gives to the Jewish world a translation of the Scriptures done by men imbued with the Jewish consciousness, while the non-Jewish world, it is hoped, will welcome a translation that presents many passages from the Jewish traditional point of view.
—From the Preface

Additional Information

Title: Tanakh: A New Translation of the Holy Scriptures according to the Traditional Hebrew Text
Publisher: Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1917

Benefits of the Logos Bible Software Edition

As with all Bibles from Logos, the Bible Search feature lets you easily perform simple word or phrase searches, or more complex proximity, data type, or field searches. If you choose the 1917 Tanakh as the preferred Bible in your library, it will be used as the default in reports and features such as Passage Guide. You can also use it as your preferred version in a Bible reading plan if you have the Personal Bible Study Tools Addin (available in most base packages).

Logos Bible Software also contains Automation Addins which let you instantly and effortlessly compare Bible versions. With the Parallel Bible Versions report, you can line up as many versions as you own for an in-depth verse-by-verse comparison of the differences between them. This makes it a snap to pinpoint the differences between your translations.

As a further aid to comparison, the Compare Parallel Bible Versions Addin even highlights in color each word that differs between versions. This Addin is also available in Scholar’s Library and Scholar’s Silver. Other options such as the Bible Analysis Addin provide visual graphs to help you analyze the way different versions render a Bible verse or passage into English.

About the Jewish Publication Society

The Jewish Publication Society of America was founded in Philadelphia in 1888 to provide the children of Jewish immigrants to America with books about their heritage in the language of the New World. As the oldest publisher of Jewish titles in the English language, the mission of JPS is to enhance Jewish culture by promoting the dissemination of religious and secular works of exceptional quality, in the United States and abroad, to all individuals and institutions interested in past and contemporary Jewish life.

Over the years JPS has issued a body of works for all tastes and needs. Its many titles include biographies, histories, art books, holiday anthologies, books for young readers, religious and philosophical studies, and translations of scholarly and popular classics. It is perhaps known best for its famous JPS Tanakh, the translation of the Hebrew Bible in English from the original Hebrew.