New Doubleday' Anchor Bible Translations
Arouse Renewed Interest in Holy Scriptures

This is a remarkably good year
for biblical scholars, and the mul-
titudes who are becoming interest-
ed in revised Bible translations
have a veritable heyday.
The Jewish Publication Society's
Torah already is a most noteworthy
work that has won acclaim in the
English-speaking world. From Orth-
odox sources have come new Bible
translations. Now we are treated to
a new set of translations —• the
Doubleday Anchor Bible—of which

Intermarriage on Increase in Canada;
Study Shows Ratio Up to 18.5 Per Cent

1941 to 1963. In the same period,
he said, the rate of marriage

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

MONTREAL--Intermarriage be-
among the general Canadian
tween Jews and non-Jews in Can-
population increased.
ada has been increasing substan-
From 1962 to 1963; he said, the
tially in , recent years, a study by intermarriage rate had gone up in
Louis Rosenberg, research direc- the provinces of Saskatchewan, Al-
tor of the Canadian Jewish Con- bee
British Columbia, Manitoba
gross, showed Wednesday.
and Quebec. but decreased in Nova
The data showed that, whereas Scotia. New Brunswick and Onta-
the intermarriage ratio among Ca-
nadian Jews was 3.8 per cent in rig. In general, the data showed, the
1931, it had gone up to 16.5 per intermarriage rate went up in
cent in 1962, and rose still further areas with fewer Jews, and de-
to 18.5 per cent in 1963.
clined in the areas with the larger
At the same time, Rosenberg
Jewish populations.

criticism has established this last • sors, each of whom has had some
point on the strength of massive ' share in the search. As long as a
: single pertinent tablet or ostracon
internal evidence."
Thus, the eminent chairman or remains underground, or has gone
the department of. Oriental studies' unheeded, there can be no defini-
at the University of Pennsylvania , tive translation of a book of the
at once emerges as the dissenter: Bible."
It is evident that aside from the
from the established Orthodox:
view which is that the Bible has insistent use of the term Yahweh,
come down from Sinai through. and of other deviations, in transla-
! tion and interpretation in his many
Moses.
Tracing the documentary sources. commentaries, Prof. Speiser's work
of Genesis, and the effects of Mes- , is particularly distinguished from
opotamian p o 1 y t h e i s m, Prof.! ether translations by his insistence
said, the total number of Jewish
Speiser. declaring that "monothe-; on independence, on being an in-
marriages in the dominion has
been declining. going down by , . Hebrew Corner
ism is predicated on the concept: dividual. on working on his own
of a God who has no rivalS, and is rather than with a group, as was .
' the case with the JPS Bible trans-
therefore omnipotent." asserts:
"The history of the biblical proc-' lation which was the collective
Before his death HaRambam (Rabbi
buried
ess is ultimately the story of the: product of a committee represent-
Moshe ben daimon) asked•that he be
in Eretz Israel without specify-
monotheistic ideal in its gradual. ing Reform, Conservative and
ing the name of the place. e e
Jews there
o
agre
on
Jews
w
Diaspora,
in Egypt. Tice days.
the
evolution. That ideal was first Orthodox
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A 1965- mo Di a s him for seven
glimpsed and pursued by a single , common denominator—on common
the - shiva" they placed his holy body
66 budget for the government, ex- in
society in. resolute opposition to• groundwork acceptable to all.
ceeding 4.000.000,000 pounds (S1. - Israel.
Prof. Benjamin Mazar of the
prevailing beliefs. In the course
the border the leaders of the
333.333,333) was presented at Sun- ! e On
Hebrew University in Jerusalem
ws coli. E. ret j Insratel learcizie frto na regoias•ee
of that quest. certain truths
day's meeting of the Cabinet by I J
emerged which proved to possess' is one of a large group who
coming from Egypt that HaRambarn did
universal validity, hence their , have commended the Doubleday- pinha.; Sapir. minister of finance. i not state the exact place his burial
The new budget includes increases ' should take place, the leaders of the
Bible works--the first
Anchor
-
and
ac
-'nition
progressive reco
towns in the country began to quarre
ceptance: hence, too, the abiding. two of the Old and New Testa- in funds earmarked for security amongst themselves. Each one wanted
' that HaRambam should be buried in
appeal of the Bible as the compre- ments to be issued on the initia- and for education. The Cabinet his city.
. tive of Doubleday. The work of started debate on the budget and
The leaders of Jerusalem said: We
hensive record of that quest."
will continue that discussion at a are in the center of the world. in Jeru-.
Prof. Reicke of the University of
The major interest in the in-
salem was and will be the Holy Temple.'
transla-
special session Tuesday.
Basel. Switzerland,—the
Therefore the "Zadik" should be buried
troduction is • the author-trans-
tion of The Epistles of James. Prime Minister Levi Eshkol an- on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.
lator's analysis of the various
The leaders of Hebron said: in the
Peter
and
Jude
—
is,
like
Dr.
nounced
the
resignation
of
Minister
' "NIearath Ilamachpela" in the city of
Bible translations which have ,
are 'buried the ancestors of our
appeared as revisions of the ' Speiser's Genesis, a pioneering of Agriculture Moshe Dayan and Hebron
nation (Abraham. Isaac. Jacob). there-
announced at the same time the fore
King James Version and his ex- effort challenging biblical schol-
HaRambam should be buried in
designation of Dr. Chaim Givati, our city.
planation of his perSonal ap- ' ars and arousing renewed inter-
The leaders of Safed said: Who is
until now director-general of the ' greater
est in both the Old and New
to us than the "Godly Taana*:
proach."
agriculture ministry. to succeed Rabbi Simon Bar Yochai who is buried
Testaments.
"The stepped-up pace of trans-
1 at NIeron near Safed? Tlie'efore let
lational effort is but an index of ' There will be a total of 38 vol- Dayan in the Cabinet.
lia Bambara be buried rear the grave
The Cabinet adjourned
early Nleron.
so
..
of
Bar
Yochai
at
IV . flow of discovery " Dr. • umes in the Doubleday Anchor
the -
of Tiberias stood q
Taders
he le
Speiser states. "Desire to keep up . series. the current ones just re- that its members could join other .
uietly
tobescaaus
iri
ey arrigi d DauLtvethe
an ything to
with
with changing English usage has: viewed being numbered 1 and 37. members of the Knesset. Israel's r Finally they decided to place the
been a relatively minor factor. It! Each will be a new translation, and Parliament, on a visit to the home ' coffin
will
oift :Litpl:
A .ieonplaa ccean‘ze and leeacve ietlgw
h ere th
is not the language of this or that , each will have a recognized author- of President Zalman Shazar. to '
there they will bury the holy "Zadik"
version of the Bible that has need-' ity as its translator. Six volumes .congratulate the President on his
bi•roir aiitivneg will see the judg-
ed - revising. but the underlying . will be published yearly and the '75th birthday. The group was ..and
The camel proceeded followed by a
image of the biblical age, as re- . entire project will be concluded in joined on the visit by heads of Ifiarrs1 eh othursoe n
arneei
rl en snt
hal t d.
fa
fleeted in the text. the grammar.' 1970. The editor-in-chief of the Israel's municipalities, other public
It was on this spot that HaRambani
the lexicon, and — above all — in ; series is Prof. William F. Albright. institutions. and a number of other was buried an d there he lay at rest
prominent Israelis. including for- till this day.
the enormous volume of new ma-,
—Translation of Hebrew column
mer Prime Minister David Ben -
Published by Brit Ivrit
terial on the ancient Near EaSt as Israel's Messages
Jerusalem
a whole.
"The translation which is of- Sent to Johnson by
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fered in the present work was
handicapped by fewer obstacles • President, Premier
JERUSALEM (JTA1— President
than 'standard' versions normally
L2w,
face. Concentration on a single ' Shazar and Premier Eshkol sent
book of the Bible automatically messages of congratulations to
limits the range of problems. An President Johnson on his landslide
individual can venture solutions election victory.
- From Jerusalem. the City of rip. 7tg (1it773
from which a collective body might
be expected to shrink. And the Peace. our blessings and hopes go
addition of extensive notes and out to you." President Shazar said.
comments affords ample opportu- Premier Eshkol said in his message
nity to justify a seemingly far- that PreSident Johnson's "construe-
'717 1D3
retched rendition. tive leadership on behalf of peace. .11313
"But no biblical version nova-; freedom and international fraterni-
days can be anything else than ty has already given the world re-
stuff for transforming. All that a newed hope for a better future."
'71=rI 17V
modern translator can hope for .is Eshkol also cabled congratulations
to have progressed here and there to Vice President - elect Hubert
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beyond its innumerable predeces- , Humphrey.

Dr. Gavati Named
Successor to Dayan

PROF. E. A. SPEISER

we are initially offered Genesis
translated and with a scholarly in-
troduction and annotations, by
Prof. Ephraim A. Speiser: and The

Epistles of James. Peter and Jude,
translated and annotated by Prof.
Bo Ivar Reicke.

At the outset. it would be inter-
esting to show the differences. be-
tween the JPS and the Double
Anchor translations.
The initial lines in GeneSis in
the new JPS Torah read:

When God began to create the
heavens and the earth — the
earth being unformed and void,
with darkness over the surface
of the deep and a wind from God
sweeping over the water — God
said. "Let there be light"; and
there ' was light. God saw how
good the light was, and God
separated the light from the
darkness. God called the light
Day. and the darkness lie called
Night. And there was evening
and there was, morning, a first
day.
• In Prof.. Speiser's translation.

the same opening lines read:

When God set about to create
heaven and earth — the world
being then a formless waste, with
darkness over the seas and only
an awesome wind sweeping over
the water—God said, , "Let there
be light." And there was light.
God was pleased with the light
that he saw, and he separated the
light from the darkness. God
called the light Day. and he call-
ed the darkness Night. Thus
evening came. and morning —
f irst day.

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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
48—Friday. Novebmer 13, 1964

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Regardless of the preferences
that may develop—and a mere few
line comparison certainly is not
sufficient to judge the merits of
such important works. the mere in-
creasing interest in the Bible, the
great pains to improve upon its
translations. create a fascination
in the subject.
Prof. Speiser's new work — in
itself a revolutionary task and a
most commendable undertaking by
Doubleday — commences with a .
scholarly essay. His introduction is
an enlightening probing into the
authorship of Genesis and deals at
length with the results of biblical
criticism.
He views the Pentateuch as "a
composite work, the product of
many hands and periods" and as-
serts:

"Torah is not strictly law, and
there is no warrant in the Pen-
tateuch itself — as opposed to
sundry echoes in later books of
the Bible — for ascribing the
authorship of the work as a
whole to Moses. Modern biblical

Maimonides' Tomb.

Settlers are shown arriving in Carmiel, the first new town to
be established in the Central Galilee under Israel's program for
the development of the area. which was initiated with the aid of
Israel Bond funds. Carmiel was formally dedicated last week at
special ceremonies attended by Prime Minister Levi Eshkol and
other leading Israeli officials. The new town is expected to have
an eventual population of 50,000; and is a key element in Israel's
plans to settle unoccupied regions of the Galilee and bring about
closer cooperation between the Jewish and Arab inhabitants.

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