The Living Torah and Nach

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The Living Torah and The Living Nach are popular, clear and modern English translations

Tanakh
based on traditional Jewish sources, along with extensive notes, maps, illustrations, diagrams, charts, bibliography, and index.

A 2006 list, "An Annotated Bibliography Of Translations And Commentaries", placed these volumes in "Texts with Talmudic Translations" in second place, right after ArtScroll.[2]

The series is published by Moznaim Publishers.

The Living Torah

The Living Torah

haftarot for synagogue
use.

Kaplan had the following goals for his translation, which were arguably absent from previous English translations:

Kaplan's work has been hailed as one of the best English translations of the Torah because of his inclusion of the rabbinic elucidation of the text. Rabbi

Aramaic, one can fulfill Shnayim mikra ve-echad targum
, the obligatory weekly reading of the Torah twice in Hebrew and once with translation, with The Living Torah's translation.

A Russian language translation of The Living Torah has been published.[6]

Special features

  • The table of contents lists the wordings and page numbers of the 670 short descriptions he wrote for each section.
  • Regarding the Torah's paragraph indicators, פ (PaTuAch/ Open-to-end-of-line) and ס (SaToom/ Closed-within-line-of-text), "Kaplan .. accentuates these in the English text."[2]
  • The introduction wrestles with maintaining the distinction between singular and plural for the word you.[7] Kaplan then states that
    • "thee" is more correct
    • but he sees "thee" as violating a command, "every day the Torah should be as new."[8] (he uses "You")

The work is also noted for its detailed index, thorough cross-references, extensive footnotes with maps and diagrams, and research on

Dio Cassius, Philostratus and Herodotus). The footnotes also indicate differences in interpretation amongst the commentators, classic and modern.[9]

The Living Torah was "compiled by the author in the short period of nine months."[1]

The Living Nach

The Living Torah was later supplemented by 3 volumes of The Living Nach:[10] Early Prophets (1994) and Later Prophets (1995) for Nevi'im, and Sacred Writings (1998) for Ketuvim. These follow Rabbi Kaplan's format and approach, and were prepared posthumously: the former two by Yaakov Elman (Yeshiva University); the third by Moshe Schapiro, M.H. Mykoff (Breslov Research Institute), and Gavriel Rubin.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan Dead at 48". JTA.org. February 2, 1983.
  2. ^ a b "An Annotated Bibliography Of Translations And Commentaries". 2006. Archived from the original on 2019-01-21. Retrieved 2019-01-20.
  3. ISBN 0-940118-35-1
    .
  4. ^ "Bibliography". .. Kaplan .. a translation in plain and readable English
  5. ^ "The Living Nach Series 3 Volumes". sources such as Rashi, the Alfasi, RaMBaM, and also from the Me'am Lo'ez
  6. ^ "The Living Torah. By Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan - Russian".
  7. ^ for other examples, see Jewish English Bible translations#Living Torah and Nach
  8. ^ Rashi, Deut. 27:16
  9. ^ See for example: R. Kaplan's note concerning "Azazel" (Lev. 16:8); his note concerning the 4th plague עָרוֹב (Ex. 8:17); his note concerning Terumah (Ex. 22:28)
  10. Hebrew acronym for Nevi'im (נביאים) and Ketuvim
    (כתובים).

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