Hebrew-English Bible

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(02-17-2010 02:53 PM)SheitlQueen Wrote:  

Quote: That explains why the English translation on the Genesis 1 page is so like the King James.

It was intentionally patterned after the KJV:

The first JPS translation was completed in 1917 by a committee led by Max Margolis and was based on the scholarship of its day. Its literary form was consciously based on that of the King James Version; Margolis, a non-native speaker of English, felt that was the proper standard of language that Jews should adopt for their translation (from wikipedia)

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Wiki also has a good article on the Masoretic text:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masoretic_text

That article is fascinating. (Linguistics is another science I enjoy pursuing, albeit on an amateur level.)