Here is a link to the text
Modernized Tanakh, Based on JPS 1917 by Editor: Adam Cohn is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at http://opensiddur.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Tanakh1917.txt.
Sunday, September 1, 2013
The Book of Jonah
I have taken a small break while preparing for the High Holidays and decided to create a modernized version of the book of Jonah. I still am working on the final formatting for the Genesis and will include Jonah when it is finished.
Here is a link to the text
Modernized Tanakh, Based on JPS 1917 by Editor: Adam Cohn is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at http://opensiddur.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Tanakh1917.txt.
Here is a link to the text
Modernized Tanakh, Based on JPS 1917 by Editor: Adam Cohn is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at http://opensiddur.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Tanakh1917.txt.
Friday, August 23, 2013
From Strength to Strength
So, less than two months after I began this project, I have finished the book of Genesis. If you have been checking, you will see that the whole text is available at the regular link.
Finishing a whole book is quite the milestone. I will say that editing the text has been a more emotional experience than I would have expected it to be. Coming into contact with each line, altering the words, and attempting to preserve the original meaning is an incredibly intimate experience. The stories in Genesis have always had an emotional impact on me, but when you are just reading, it is easy to disengage if the work becomes uncomfortable.
At various places, I found myself incredibly angry... How could Abraham just hand his wife and child some bread and water and send them into the wilderness? I know the almighty told him it would be okay, but really? Incredibly sad... Watching sisters, Rachel and Leah tear each other apart and create constant conflict that spills over the the kids... Watching Jacob, despite making incredible spiritual progress, succumb to depression and despair, never fully recovering.
More than ever, I am struck by the enormity of the story of this world, created by God for our benefit, slowly descending into chaos. Watching as the children of Abraham walk blindly into exile in Egypt. I know their redemption is coming in the next book, but things never seem to get easier for the Jewish people.
Since I am not under a tight deadline for the rest of the books, maybe I will take some time to blog about my experience with the text as it is happening.
For now, I am undergoing a particularly nasty form of punishment known as text formatting. I am working on a very nice, clean printable copy of the text. With the English and Hebrew side by side. I hope it will be available in a day or two. When it is I will post it here.
Finishing a whole book is quite the milestone. I will say that editing the text has been a more emotional experience than I would have expected it to be. Coming into contact with each line, altering the words, and attempting to preserve the original meaning is an incredibly intimate experience. The stories in Genesis have always had an emotional impact on me, but when you are just reading, it is easy to disengage if the work becomes uncomfortable.
At various places, I found myself incredibly angry... How could Abraham just hand his wife and child some bread and water and send them into the wilderness? I know the almighty told him it would be okay, but really? Incredibly sad... Watching sisters, Rachel and Leah tear each other apart and create constant conflict that spills over the the kids... Watching Jacob, despite making incredible spiritual progress, succumb to depression and despair, never fully recovering.
More than ever, I am struck by the enormity of the story of this world, created by God for our benefit, slowly descending into chaos. Watching as the children of Abraham walk blindly into exile in Egypt. I know their redemption is coming in the next book, but things never seem to get easier for the Jewish people.
Since I am not under a tight deadline for the rest of the books, maybe I will take some time to blog about my experience with the text as it is happening.
For now, I am undergoing a particularly nasty form of punishment known as text formatting. I am working on a very nice, clean printable copy of the text. With the English and Hebrew side by side. I hope it will be available in a day or two. When it is I will post it here.
Sunday, July 28, 2013
A Modernized Free Tanakh based on the public domain JPS 1917 edition
This is a work in progress
Currently, I have completed the first 24 chapters of Genesis.
You can access the most current text here.
If you have comments on the translation, you can comment below or go to Sefaria.org where I will be contributing the work as it develops.
Modernized Tanakh, Based on JPS 1917 by Editor: Adam Cohn is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at http://opensiddur.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Tanakh1917.txt.
Currently, I have completed the first 24 chapters of Genesis.
You can access the most current text here.
If you have comments on the translation, you can comment below or go to Sefaria.org where I will be contributing the work as it develops.
Modernized Tanakh, Based on JPS 1917 by Editor: Adam Cohn is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at http://opensiddur.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Tanakh1917.txt.
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