The Living Torah is a 1981 translation of the Torah by Aryeh Kaplan, published by Moznaim. It was and remains a highly popular translation, and was reissued in a Hebrew-English version with haftarot for synagogue use. Kaplan had the following goals for his translation, which were arguably absent from previous English translations: Clear and readable Close the basic meaning (peshat) of the text in many places, but in other places translated to be in accord with post-biblical rabbinic commentary and Jewish codes of law. Faithful to Orthodox Jewish tr ...

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The efforts of translating the Bible from its original languages into over 2,000 others have spanned more than two millennia. Partial translations of the Bible into English can be traced back to the end of the 7th century. Over 450 versions have been created over time. The following paragraphs describe the history of these efforts, focusing on the translation of the Bible into English. English translations of the Bible - Early translations. English translations of the Bible - Early Jewish translatio ...

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• English translations of the Bible - Early Jewish translations
• English translations of the Bible - Early Christian translations
• English translations of the Bible - Jerome's Bible
• English translations of the Bible - Old English translations
• English translations of the Bible - Middle English translations
• English translations of the Bible - Early Modern English translations
• English translations of the Bible - Modern translations
• English translations of the Bible - Christian translations
• English translations of the Bible - Critical translations
• English translations of the Bible - Jewish translations

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English translations of the Bible - Early Jewish translations. Some of the first translations of the Jewish Torah began during the first exile in Babylonian, when Aramaic became the lingua franca of the Jews. With most people speaking only Aramaic and not understanding Hebrew, the Targums were created to allow the common person to understand the Torah as it was read in ancient synagogues. The most well-known movement to translate books of the Bible appeared in the 3rd century BCE. Most of the Tanakh then e ...

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Although John Wycliff is often credited with the first translation of the Bible into English, there were, in fact, many translations of large parts of the Bible centuries before Wycliff's work. Toward the end of the seventh century, the Venerable Bede began a translation of Scripture into Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon). Aldhelm (AD 640–709), likewise, translated the complete Book of Psa ...

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Main articles: Modern Jewish translations. Modern Christian translations. Much like early English Bibles, which were based on Greek texts or Latin translations, modern English translations of the Bible are based on the best-available original texts of the time. The translators put much scholarly effort into cross-checking the various sources such as the Pentateuch, Septuagint, Textus Receptus, and Masoretic Text. Relatively recent discoveries such as the Dead Sea scrolls provide additional reference ...

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