
The Hebrew Bible in English according to the JPS 1917 Edition

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version. You may use this Bible only for your private study, not for
publishing in any form, including any Web site.  Under the Fair Use
Doctrine, you may use short quotations from it in any other work,
including copyrighted publications.  Any other use requires written
permission from us.


If you know some Hebrew, try our Hebrew - English Bible at
http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0.htm

The JPS Bible in HTML is at
http://www.mechon-mamre.org/e/et/et0.htm


Contents in Original Hebrew Bible Order:

Torah - Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy

Prophets - Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel,
Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah,
Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi

Writings - Chronicles, Psalms, Job, Proverbs, Ruth, Song of Songs,
Ecclesiastes, Lamentations, Esther, Daniel, Ezra / Nehemiah

Preface to the JPS 1917 Edition


The English text in this edition of the Hebrew Bible is based on the
text-format transcription by Larry Nelson (Box 2083, Rialto, CA 92376
USA, nelsonlarry@juno.com) as found on the Internet in differing
copies.  In addition to converting his text to HTML and then Palm Pilot
PDB files, we did correct a few typographical errors, based mostly on
comparing the various text versions we found, and took out all of the
paragraph marks (), which were not based on the Hebrew original.  We
have added signs for the paragraphs found in the original Hebrew: In
the poetical books of Psalms, Job (aside from the beginning and end),
and Proverbs, each verse normallly starts on a new line; where there
is a new line within a verse, we added {N}, and when there is a blank
line, we added {P}.  In the rest of the books, we added {S} for setumah
(open space within a line) and {P} for petuHah (new paragraph on new
line) according to our Hebrew Bible).  We have not tried to reproduce
the complex structure of the special songs such as in Exodus 15 and
Deuteronomy 32, as we do not think that that would make sense in
English.


This zip ordinarily unzips into a folder named MTRET ; to actually
read the files, you need to use the old iSilo free reader (included
here) or one of the later versions of the iSilo reader available as
freeware (with added functions as shareware):

http://www.isilo.com

