Hebrew Bible [Hardcover]

Bible Society in Israel (Creator)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1194 pages
• Publisher: Bible Society in Israel (December 2000)
• Language: Hebrew
• ISBN-10: 9654310007
• ISBN-13: 978-9654310000
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #652,799 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you can read vowel pointed Hebrew this is a great Bible!, April 10, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Hebrew Bible (Hardcover)

This Bible is great...good price..double ribbon, clear hebrew font with vowel points...Brit Chadasha (New Testament)included. Good all around Bible for one who wants it simple and clear...

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars easiest to read, February 10, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Hebrew Bible (Hardcover)

I use it for my daily reading in Hebrew, together with the usual tools: The Interpreters Bible, a English/Hebrew Hebrew/English pocket dictionary, Strong's concordance, and the Zuttgart Interlinear. The font is exceptionally easy to read; a sort of arial, but in Hebrew, of course. Well bound too (unlike the Interllnear and dictionary).

It includes a Hebrew New Testament, which is interesting for the echoes of the semetic (whether Aramaic or Hebrew) oral and written documents that preceded the Greek New Testament. You can't help but wonder, with David Flusser and Robert Lindsey, whether the translator has not occasionally recreated the very voice of Jesus. As one progresses into the letters of Paul, written in Greek in the first place, one senses the remove.

Textual variants, referred to by other reviewers, are perfectly up-to-date, but the text sometimes fails to note the deviation. In the Gospel of John the translator often inserts "leaders of" in front of "the Jews" when John fails to do so. When there is a Hebrew idom that can be recovered from the Greek, the translator exercises his perogative so that the Hebrew is sometimes easier to read and understand than the English! The translator also uses the Hebrew Bible when quoting the Old Testament, even when the Septuagint was clearly the source.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hebrew Bible, October 6, 2002

By 

Billy D. Washburn - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hebrew Bible (Hardcover)

To those who know the Messiah of Israel and can read Hebrew, this is the Packaged Scripture for you. Here it all is in one book just like the old standard, The King James Version. There is a seamless binding of all three parts to what we believers call the Scriptures. The Torah, The Ketuvim, The Neviem, and The Brit Chadasha are all preserved for us in an single book with two ribbons for marking Scripture. The best part is that it is all in Babalonian Hebrew complete with vowel markings for easy reading. Next to a good Torah Scroll, The Hebrew Bible is a must for all you Messianics with a heart for the Father's word in the Father's toung.

Shalom,

Billy Washburn