Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ulysses.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!smb From: smb@ulysses.UUCP (Steven Bellovin) Newsgroups: net.religion,net.religion.jewish Subject: translation of the Torah with commentary Message-ID: <788@ulysses.UUCP> Date: Wed, 29-Feb-84 20:48:57 EST Article-I.D.: ulysses.788 Posted: Wed Feb 29 20:48:57 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Mar-84 22:06:12 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 10 Those of you who (like me) are fond of the Jewish Publication Society translation of the Bible might be interested in a new version (of the Torah only) that includes a "modern commentary". It's apparently an edition intended for synagogue use, as it includes the weekly Haftorah portions and the Hebrew text. (The Torah is the five Books of Moses; the Haftorah is a set of selections from the portion of the Bible known as Nivi'im ("Prophets") that are read each week, just after the Torah portion of the week.) According to the blurb I have here, the new volume includes "explanatory footnotes and essays, bibliographies, gleanings, maps, and index". I'm going to order it; I'll post a review if anyone's interested.