The Contemporary Torah: A Gender-Sensitive Adaptation of the JPS Translation (Jewish Publication Society, 2006; 424 pages). Rabbi David E. S. Stein, revising editor. Consulting editors: Adele Berlin, Ellen Frankel, Carol Meyers.

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PUBLISHER’S WEB PAGE FOR THIS BOOK, which includes a Q&A interview with me.

WHAT OTHERS SAY

PREFACE • The need for a gender-sensitive version • Strengths and limitations of the base translation (NJPS) • Adaptation methodology • 31 pp. [PDF]

ERRATA (corrections and proposed refinements) to the translation, as of 1 July 2020. [PDF]

Supporting Documentation

• Translator’s notes for Exodus–Deuteronomy • More than 500 notes that analyze gender specifications in the Hebrew text • Unparalleled in their level of detail and comprehensiveness • Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers notes have been revised and expanded for the closely related URJ translation’s 2014 printing • These notes precede my construal of ’ish as profiling its referent as a ‘participant [in the depicted situation]’, which has led to my proposing further alterations (see the Errata, above).

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