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This is the frontispiece of the Constantinople Polyglot Bible, the first of two multilingual editions of the Pentateuch printed by Eliezer Soncino in Constantinople. It contained the Hebrew text of…
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Artist Unknown
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1546
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Willem Surenhuys
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1698
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There’s a stale, sour stench: a miscellany of heaped-up vegetables and fruits, cheese, fried fish, sweaty bodies, thighs, urine, and belching drunks. The smell sneaks harsh but titillating into the…
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Meir Corona
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Mexico City, Mexico
Date:
1939
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It has not always been easy to break with the more than two-thousand-year-old manner of translating the Hebrew Bible, the word-for-word manner. Thus in Gen. 14.1–2 (cf. vv…
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Harry Orlinsky
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1969
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We, the entire assembly of the congregation of Israel, believe that the Torah that is in our possession today is exactly the same as was written by Moses our master, peace be on him. From then until…
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Moses Mendelssohn
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1783
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[ . . . ] I have striven to transmit exactly the course of thought, the spirit, and the expressions of the [original] text; thus, you have before you not a “reworking” but a true translation.I have…
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Max Weinreich
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1915
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It would not seem proper, most magnificent Lady, that now we are about to print the Bible in our Spanish tongue, translated from the Hebrew word for word—so rare a work never before known until our…
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Yom Tob Athias, Abraham Usque
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Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara (Ferrara, Italy)
Date:
1553