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Title: Tanach: The Stone Edition/Black : The Torah/Prophets/Writings : The Twenty-Four Books of the Bible Newly Translated and Annotated (The Artscroll Ser.)) by Nosson Scherman ISBN: 0-89906-269-5 Publisher: Mesorah Publications, Limited Pub. Date: 01 December, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.41 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful
Comment: The Stone Edition Tanach includes the Hebrew text of the twenty four books of the Jewish Bible, Torah (Pentateuch), Nevi'im (Prophets) and Kethuvim (Writings), an English translation, brief commentary, timelines, charts, diagrams and maps, and relevant synagogue notes and readings.
The Hebrew text is clearly pointed and easy to read. On the opposite page is the English translation. The translation is accurate, modern, clear and mellifluous.
Beneath the Hebrew and English text is a very brief commentary drawn from important Jewish sources. Some reviewers seem very impressed by this commentary. While I have no problems with the commentary, it does not seem intended as the focus of this Tanakh. If you are looking for extensive traditional Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh in English from Artscroll, try the multi-volume Artscroll Tanach Series. There are also many, many other very good English translations of classical commentaries and anthologies of commentaries available. I also strongly recommend the Stone Edition Chumash, which includes a wonderful, anthologised commentary on the Torah (Pentateuch).
The exception here is the Song of Songs. Artscroll here "translate" the book according to Rashi's allegorical commentary, and beneath this, in the commentary section, provide a literal, phrase-by-phrase translation of the Hebrew. This is very original and excellently done.
Throughout the translation, with the exceptions of Ecclessiastes and Lamentations, it seems, marginal notes introduce, summarise and set the context. A nice introduction also prefaces each book, summarising some of its themes.
If you need a Tanakh, with an English translation, this edition is beautiful and clear.
Rating: 5
Summary: Comprehensive and well translated
Comment: Not only are the Torah, Prophets and Writings fully translated in modern English, the Hebrew with the cantellations for chanting (trop) are legibly included. Therefore, if you take the time to search out where the haftorahs begin and end, you may use the Stone edition as a chumash. In fact, Artscroll publishes a Chumash but why not get every word of the Bible rather than just those parts of the Prophets which are included among the Haftorahs? The best feature of a good Bible is the use of commentaries which illuminate the text. Artscroll, as in all their publications, includes excellent commentaries. The comments are from a fundamentalist Orthodox viewpoint and are very illuminating. I also recommend the JPS Tanakh which is also a faithful translation of the original Hebrew but which may contain a slightly different viewpoint in the comments. However, the Stone edition, with the full Hebrew text including trop, all in one volume, is the best Bible published anywhere.
Rating: 1
Summary: biased narrowminded....
Comment: Poor poor poor translation. elementary. very biased. very biased, narrowminded choice of commentary. how many ways can i say ICK! have you read their choice of allegorical translation/interpretation of Shir HaShirim? BUT...the hebrew font typeset is gorgeous. i would get it for the hebrew alone. but you want something straightforward? Koren Publishers THE JERUSALEM BIBLE right out of HaEretz. No apologies I am just so not impressed with this ArtScroll, but hey, I am no scholar. And for Chumash I prefer Cohen's Socino
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Title: The Chumash: The Stone Edition (Artscroll Series) by Nosson Scherman ISBN: 0899060145 Publisher: Mesorah Publications, Limited Pub. Date: 01 June, 1993 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: The Complete Artscroll Siddur (Artscroll Mesorah Series) by N. Scherman ISBN: 089906650X Publisher: Artscroll Pub. Date: 01 June, 1989 List Price(USD): $27.99 |
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Title: Everyman's Talmud: The Major Teachings of the Rabbinic Sages by A. Cohen, Abraham Cohen ISBN: 0805210326 Publisher: Schocken Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1995 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: To Be a Jew: A Guide to Jewish Observance in Contemporary Life by Hayim Donin ISBN: 0465086322 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1991 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Essential Talmud by Adin Steinsaltz ISBN: 0465020631 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 1984 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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