...conservative sites. Oddly for an interfaith site, the Beliefnet consumers' guide to Bible translations ignores the Jewish Publication Society version, and uses the wrong name for the official Catholic translation. The guide also ignores the big problem...

...University of Maryland English professor and specialist in Hebrew Scriptures, in a new commentary on Esther (Jewish Publication Society, 169 pages, $34.95) issued barely in time for Purim. She's not alone in this interpretation. Esther...

...waters. And God said: 'Let there be light.' And there was light." That's Genesis 1:1-3 in the 1917 Jewish Publication Society translation. Most Christian renditions are virtually identical. The Jewish society's modernized English...

...net/bible/00bible.htm -- One major translation both Jews and Christians should be familiar with, the Jewish Publication Society's Tankah of 1982, is not yet available online. -- For links to several of these Bible sites, as well as...

...Other boosters include the chairman of the Catholic Biblical Association, the editor-in-chief of the Jewish Publication Society and numerous scholars the sort of coalition thats rarely achieved when it comes to the Bible. Bible Literacy...