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From: smb@ulysses.UUCP (Steven Bellovin)
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Subject: translation of the Torah with commentary
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Date: Wed, 29-Feb-84 20:48:57 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 29 20:48:57 1984
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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.