THE HOLY SCRIPTURES
The historic necessity for translation was repeated with all the great changes in Israel's career. It is enough to point to the Septuagint, or the Greek translation of the Scriptures, the product of Israel's contact with the Hellenistic civilization dominating the world at that time; to the Arabic translation …
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THE HOLY SCRIPTURES - Jewish Publication Society
jps.orgiii PREFACE The following is from the preface to the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 edition of the Hebrew Bible in English: The sacred task of translating the …
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