Presents a complete translation of the traditional Hebrew text into contemporary English.

This edition renews and revises the iconic Jewish Publication Society translation of the Bible to reflect advances in scholarship and changes in English while maintaining the utmost fidelity to the original Hebrew.

Organized in an A to Z format for easy reference, The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words contains 1,200 entries derived from Yiddish, Hebrew, Aramaic, and English.

This guide to the Jewish Bible explains what the Jewish Bible is, how it developed, its structure and differences between it and Christian Bibles.

These twenty-five short chapters on Jewish Literature open with the fall of Jerusalem in the year 70 of the current era, and end with the death of Moses Mendelssohn in 1786.