Jewish Bible Translations - 9780827613126

Jewish Bible TranslationsPersonalities, Passions, Politics, Progress\nAuthor(s): Leonard Greenspoon\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Jewish Publication Society, United States\nImprint: Jewish Publication Society\nISBN-13: 9780827613126, 978-0827613126\nSynopsis\nJewish Bible Translations is the first book to examine Jewish Bible translations from the third century BCE to our day. It is an overdue corrective of an important story that has been regularly omitted or downgraded in other histories of Bible translation.\n\n Examining a wide range of translations over twenty-four centuries, Leonard Greenspoon delves into the historical, cultural, linguistic, and religious contexts of versions in eleven languages: Arabic, Aramaic, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Russian, Spanish, and Yiddish. He profiles many Jewish translators, among them Buber, Hirsch, Kaplan, Leeser, Luzzatto, Mendelssohn, Orlinsky, and Saadiah Gaon, framing their aspirations within the Jewish and larger.