The Pill Tanakh: Hebrew English Jewish Scriptures Psalms

The Pill Tanakh: Hebrew-English Jewish Scriptures, The Psalms This book comprises the book of Psalms of the Jewish Scriptures What makes The Pill Tanakh different? The following are some examples: 1) The Hebrew and the English texts are side-by-side, on facing pages, with matching verses; there is no run-over of the more verbose English to another page! 2) Each new book starts with an image from the actual Leningrad Codex on the page that the first verse of the book begins. 3) For this edition, I have altered both the Hebrew and English texts especially to conform to the actual Leningrad Codex (circa year 1009), most notably in the Ten Commandments of Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5. 4) I set the Hebrew numbering, which uses Hebrew letters, to follow a natural rendering for numbers 15 and 16, which rabbis insist must be obfuscated to NOT reflect the Divine Name (YHVH). I use yud-he for 15 and yud-vav for 16 instead of tet-vav and tet-zayin as per 'rabbinic superstition!' 5) Additionally, I have altered some English verses to better represent the Hebrew text in several places. As an example, I changed the over 5,000 instances where the title 'the Lord God' appears, replacing it with 'Yehovah,' the transliteration of the Hebrew. 6) In the margin of a line in the actual Leningrad Codex, there are words added that rabbis refer to as 'Qere' (what is read). These words were intended to replace a word in the line with the same root, known as 'Ketiv' (what is written). Other Jewish publications force the reading of the 'Qere' in lieu&

Pagina's: 214, Hardcover, Robert M. Pill