Jewish Bible Translations: Personalities, Passions, Politics, Progress by Leonard Greenspoon is an interesting exploration of the grand and minute history of Bible translations conducted by Jews from the Septuagint to the New JPS translation in the 1980s. Truthfully, unless you come to this book with a healthy interest in biblical tradition, this is not a good way to spend your time. But if you have such an appetite, Greenspoon will satisfy it with his expansive scholarship on remote corners of the Jewish linguistic world.
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