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.

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

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

DICTIONARY OF GENDER IN THE TORAH • 20-page appendix. [Google Preview]

ERRATA (corrections and proposed refinements) as of 18 June 2010 • Includes a replacement p. xxxi. [PDF]

Supporting Documentation

• Translator’s notes for the 2005 version of Exodus–Deuteronomy • More than 500 notes that analyze gender specifications in the Hebrew text • Unparalleled in their level of detail and comprehensiveness • Exodus and Leviticus notes revised and expanded for the translation’s 2010 printing • (Note: The Numbers and Deuteronomy notes precede my construing ’ish as a term of affiliation and my formal understanding of the gender-muting of “male” terms that point to a class.)

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