Tanakh

The New JPS Translation is an entirely new rendering of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, produced by the Jewish Publication Society and completed over the course of more than two decades. Translated from Hebrew on the basis of the Masoretic Text, it follows a modern literary and scholarly philosophy and is categorized as a fresh translation rather than a revision: the Society's earlier JPS version of 1917 stands as its institutional predecessor but not as its textual base. Its distinctive features include the avoidance of Christianizing terminology and the incorporation of modern Hebrew scholarship. Arranged according to the traditional Jewish threefold division of Torah, Prophets, and Writings, it was prepared by committees of scholars drawn from across the major branches of American Judaism, and it has been widely adopted in Jewish study editions, commentaries, and synagogue use, serving as a standard English reference point for the Tanakh.