The Pill Tanakh: Hebrew English Jewish Scriptures, Volume I - The Torah

This is The Torah, the first five books of the Jewish Scriptures. The following are some examples of what makes The Pill Tanakh different: 1) The Hebrew and English texts match, side-by-side on facing pages, with no run-over to another page! 2) Each new book starts with a page image from the Leningrad Codex where its first verse begins. 3) The Leningrad Codex renders the Ten Commandments of Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5 differently than all publications claiming it as their source. This version preserves that original rendering! 4) Biblical Hebrew numbers are represented by Hebrew letters. Herein, I set a natural rendering for numbers 15 and 16, using 'yud-he' for 15 and 'yud-vav' for 16, respectively, instead of 'tet-vav' and 'tet-zayin' as per rabbinic edict ('obfuscated numbering' to NOT reflect the Divine Name, YHVH). 5) Additionally, I have altered some English verses to better represent the Hebrew text in several places. As an example, I changed the over 5,000 instances where the title 'the Lord God' appears, replacing it with 'Yehovah' - its Hebrew transliteration. 6) In the margin of a line in the actual Leningrad Codex, there are words added that rabbis refer to as 'Qere' (what is read). These words were intended to replace a word in the line with the same root, known as 'Ketiv' (what is written). Other Jewish publications force the reading of the 'Qere' over the 'Ketiv,' obscuring the originally written text; some versions place the 'Ketiv' in brackets while others place it in the margin outside the line! In The Pill Tanakh, I relegate those 1,110 'Qere additions' to small footnote notations in the Hebrew text, preserving the natural flow of the Leningrad Codex source. Moreover, I have found few instances where the 'Qere' is actually correct; but there are many instances that are blatantly wrong, as in Exodus 21:8! Again, this is Volume 1 - The Torah, part one of a three volume set of Torah, Prophets and Writings, which make up the entire Jewish Scriptures.

• | Author: Robert Pill
• | Publisher: Robert M. Pill
• | Publication Date: Sep 16, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 520 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1737343568
• | ISBN-13: 9781737343561