The act of exegesis is not an innocent or a neutral enterprise. Jacques Derrida taught us that exegesis means intervening in the text and asserting power over it, and thereby over the reader. The ...
The Jewish Publication Society – “JPS,” for short – is about the great books of Judaism. Its mission is to promote Jewish literacy and self-understanding through the publication of books of enduring ...
The Jewish Publication Society today announced that it has undertaken revision of the translation of the Bible which was first published by the Society in 19 and now serves as the approved version for ...
Alter, professor emeritus of Hebrew and comparative literature at UC Berkeley, embarked on his own translation of the Hebrew Bible in 1999 with “The David Story,” a translation of and commentary on ...
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