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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS -- Friday, May 3 1, 196 3 —
Joan Wagner Will
Wed Joseph Pick
Dr. Orlinsky to Deliver 2 Lectures Monday on
Bible Translations at Wayne State University
Prof. Harry M. Orlinsky will
deliver two lectures at Wayne
State University Monday in the
next of the Borman Near East-
ern Lecture Series.
He will - speak at 2:30 p.m. at
the Kresge Science Lecture
Room in the new Protestant,
Catholic and Jewish Bible trans-
lations. At 8:30 p.m., in Room L
of McGregor Memorial Confer-
ence Center, with Leonard N.
Simons as chairman, he will
evaluate the new Jewish Publi-
cation Society translation of the
Torah (Pentateuch).
Dr. Orlinsky, who is professor
of Bible at the New York
School of Hebrew Unio Col-
lege-Jewish Institute of Reli-
gion, is one of the world's out-
standing Bible scholars. He was
editor-in-chief of the new trans-
lation of the Torah for the
Jewish Publication Society of
America. The first Jewish schol-
ar ever invited to take part in
an authorized Christian transla-
tion of the Bible into English,
he was the sole Jewish member
of the committee of 22 scholars
which, in 1952, produced the.
Revised Standard Version of the .
Old Testament.
Dr. Orlinsky is co-translator
of a five-volume English edi-
tion of Rashi's famed corn-
mentary on the Pentateuch.
His latest book, "Ancient Is-
rael," a study of the society
that produced the Bible, pub-
lished by Cornell University
Press, has been hailed by
scholars as the best short his-
tory of Israel available.
He is chairman of American
Friends of the Israel Explora-
tion Society; a Fellow of the
American Academy for Jewish
Research and a member of the
DR. HARRY M. ORLINSKY
tion, the new Torah manifests
several significant and clear-cut
departures from the manner of
other official Bible translations.
For one thing, it has discarded
the mechanical rendering of
word for word that has charac-
terized Bible translation hith-
erto; instead, it has attempted
consistently to reproduce the
Hebrew text sense for sense, in
clear, idiomatic English. Again,
being sponsored by a purely
cultural, rather than by any re-
ligious body, the new Torah is
generally free of any special
theological tendency; the sole
purpose of the new translation
was to reproduce as accurately
and intelligently as possible the
meaning that the original He-
MISS JOAN WAGNER
brew writer meant to convey.
At
a recent family dinner,
"Thus the new rendering of
Genesis 1.1-3, based solely on Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Wagner of
Philology (Biblical and Extra- Parkside Rd. announced the en-
biblical), has it that 'When God gagement of their daughter,
began to create the heaven and Joan Carol, to Joseph Pick, son
the earth . . . God said, "Let of Mr. and Mrs. L. Pick of
there be light"! and there was Aruba, Netherland Antilles.
The bride-elect and her fi-
light.' In other words, the He-
brew text does not talk about ance attend the University of
the beginning of the heaven, or Michigan, where she will receive
earth, or darkness, or water, her degree in education and he
etc.; it simply tells us that the will be awarded his master's
first thing that God did when degree in finance.
He began to create the universe
The Lake Superior district is
as the Hebrew writer knew it,
was to create light. By the same one of the world's largest iron
token, it was not 'the Spirit (or, ore producing regions.
a spirit) of God' that was hov-
ering or moving over the water
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(verse 2), but 'a wind from
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editorial committees of Jewish
Apocryphal Literature and the
Society of Biblical Literature.
In 1959 and 1960, Dr. Orlinsky
read papers by invitation at In-
ternational Congresses at Ox-
ford University and Moscow
State University.
May 27 — To Rabbi and Mrs.
A graduate of the University
Hayim Donin, 17639 George of Toronto, Dr. Orlinsky receiv-
Washington, Southfield, a daugh- ed his Ph.D. degree from Drop-
"THIS GOLDEN LAND," a
ter, Miriam Ruth.
sie College in 1935. At Dropsie, record celebrating 80 years of
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he was a fellow at the Univer- Jewish life in America, has just
May 25 — To Mr. and Mrs. sity of Pennsylvania from 1931 been released by the education-
Stanley V. Delidow (Jeanne to 1935. From 1936-36, he was al department of Workmen's
Mackey), 14530 Balfour, Oak a Fellow at the American Circle. Directed and produced
Park, a son, Brian Steven.
School of Oriental Research in by Himan Brown, it features
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Jerusalem and at the Hebrew Miriam Kressyn, Louis Danto,
May 22 — To Mr. and Mrs. University.
Mort Freeman and other well-
Irwin S. Alpern (Barbara Elaine( . Dr. Orlinsky was the 1959 known singers in an anthology
Sorscher), 15110 Dartmouth, recipient of the Jewish Wel- of songs recounting the Jewish
Oak Park, a son, Bernard Jay. fare Board "Frank L. Weil" experience in this country since
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award for outstanding contri- the 1880s.
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May 20 — To Mr. and Mrs. butions to American Jewish
ENGLAND'S ROYAL BAL-
Marvin Berger (Arlene Jacoby), culture.
24749 Rensselaer, Oak Park, a
Dr. Orlinsky's Monday after- LET will give five performances
daughter, Michelle Renee.
noon address on "The New at. Detroit's Masonic Temple at
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Protestant (RSV), Catholic 8:20 p.m. Friday, Saturday and
May 9—To Dr. and Mrs. ErWin (Confraternity), a n d Jewish Sunday and two matinees at
Adelman (Joyce M. Chudler), (JPS) Translations of the Bible" 2:20 p.m. on Saturday and Sun-
day. Featured will be Dame
13020 Oak Park Blvd., Oak will deal with the following:
Park, a daughter, Shari Reva.
"The Mid - Twentieh Century Margot Fonteyn, Rudolph Nur-
may well be designated the Age eyev, David Blair, Nadia Nerina,
May 8—To Mr. and Mrs. Ber- of Archaeology and Bible Trans- Lynn Seymour, Donald Mac-
nard J. Cantor (Judith Levin), lations. Western Europe as well leary, Merle Park, Keith Ros-
29746 Highmeadow, Farmington, as the United States and Can- son, Svetlana Beriosova, Anya
a son, Mark Ezra.
ada have achieved, or are in Linden, Desmond Doyle. More
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the process of completing, revi- than 150 persons are the troupe,
April 29 — To Mr. and Mrs. sions of various kinds of their which includes its own orches-
Irving Sable (Frances Pearl authorized versions of the Bible. tra.
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Gottlieb) of Prevost Ave., a son, Translations in such languages
Bruce Stanley.
Hundreds of residents from
as Norwegian, French, Hunga-
rian, English, German, and Ital- the Detroit area will join in
the house to house march next
Recommended by Physicians
ian are involved.
"For the entire Bible-reading Tuesday evening to benefit the
world is once again, after the Southwestern Michigan Chapter
lapse of a century and more, of the MUSCULAR DYSTRO-
turning increasingly to a study PHY ASSOCIATION, it was an-
Expert Mohel
by Paul Militello. re-
of the Bible- for help and guid-
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ever, naive and believing man throughout Wayne, Oakland and
that is turning to the Bible; it Macomb counties will begin
CERTIFIED EXPERT MOHEL
is, rather, the sophisticated and ringing doorbells at 7 p.m. Tues-
RABBI
knowing product of the Ages of day in hopes of raising better
Reason and Science who is the than a quarter of a million dol-
new Bible-reader of today. And lars to be used by the local
translations that are more accu- Muscular Dystrophy Headsuar-
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rate and intelligible than those ters in the treatment and care
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incurable disease.
Age of Archeology."
His address Monday night on
REV.
the JPS Torah translation is
outlined in advance by Dr.
Orlinsky as follows:
MOHEL
"Unlike the Protestant Revis-
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Dr. and Mrs. Berol Lee Robin-
ed Standard Version and the
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Catholic Confraternity Transla- son of Cleveland, 0., announce
tion, the new Jewish translation the Bar Mitzvah of their son,
of the Torah (Pentateuch) spon- David Asher, will be observed
RABBI CHASKEL
sored by the Jewish Publication June 8 at the Park Synagogue in
Society is no mere revision; it Cleveland Heights.
GRUBNER
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is, rather, an altogether new
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made
directly
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a.m. Saturday at Cong. Gemiluth
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