The Contemporary Torah: A Gender-sensitive Adaptation of the JPS Translation
"Under the editorship of David E. S. Stein, a gender-sensitive adaptation of the NJPS translation of the Torah recently appeared ... it is a thoughtful piece of work. In conjunction with the documentation Stein provides online, it will be treated as an inevitable point of departure in future discussions of gendered language used of human beings and God in the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament. More than anyone else before him, Stein tackles the issues faced in translating the gendered language of the Bible with sensitivity and verve. . . . Here's the question: are available translations sensitive to what Stein calls the grammar of social gender in Biblical Hebrew? Are they gender-accurate? If Stein is right, they are not, in hundreds of specific instances. That makes his revision of NJPSV of blockbuster importance." - Reverend John F. Hobbins, in his Ancient Hebrew Poetry blogWhat a pleasure to read the creation story and finally see that God created humankind, which, at least according to the great biblical scholar Harry Orlinsky, is the most accurate translation anyway. That sentence and others warmed the cockles of my heart and earned this volume a place on my crowded bookcase. This easy to read translation is a great place to start one's daily or weekly reading of the biblical text." - From 'The Six Best Jewish Books of 2006' in an entry by Susan Grossman (Rabbi, Beth Shalom Congregation, Columbia, Maryland) in the "Virtual Talmud" on Beliefnet.com