Tanakh

Personal theory of the Tanakh, or what Christians call The Old Testament: whether intentionally or not, the Tanakh charts the ever-growing distance between man and God. First God creates the universe and exists in perfect harmony with man; then man breaks the pact of that union; throughout his wande......more

The first time I read a version of the bible from cover to cover was during the last year at Grinnell College while I was taking Chaplain Dennis Haas' two semester sequence on the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures. The text I preferred was the academic edition of 'The Jerusalem Bible', a weighty tome......more

The Tanakh, also contemptibly denominated, "The Old Testament," is a literary masterpiece that has influenced humankind, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, more than any other single text in human history. Yet I value this text not for its cultural, religious, or political influence, but stric......more

This is the full Old Testament but in different order. In comparison to a Christian Bible, it reads in paragraph form. In the paragraphs their are annotations for verse reference. As far as readability the translation would be comparable to a Resived Standard Version (RSV) but definitely not the Kin......more

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