Stone Edition Tanach

The Stone Edition Tanach is a highly influential Orthodox Jewish English rendering of the Tanakh, produced within the ArtScroll family of publications and widely used in Orthodox synagogues, schools, and homes. Its scope is the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh — the Torah, Prophets, and Writings — translated from Hebrew, taking as its base text the Masoretic Hebrew together with the classical Jewish commentary tradition. Rather than treating translation and interpretation as separate tasks, it integrates its translation decisions with traditional rabbinic interpretation, so that its renderings often reflect classical Jewish commentators explicitly. Its guiding philosophy may be described as interpretive-traditional and readable, and it belongs to the category of fresh, traditional Jewish translation rather than to the lineage of Christian English versions. As such, it offers readers outside that tradition a view of how the Hebrew scriptures are read within rabbinic Judaism.