JPS 1917 · English Selected edition
- Language
- English
- Contents
- Book order follows the published index for this edition.
- Credits
- Jewish Publication Society of America, 1917; digital text courtesy of eBible.org
- Rights
- Public Domain
Judaism
Tanakh
The Jewish scriptural collection, presented in its own canon and ordering, with JPS 1917 English and the named UXLC Hebrew transcription.
ReadContents and editions
Genesis
Editions & sources
UXLC · Hebrew Selected edition
- Language
- Hebrew
- Contents
- Book order follows the published index for this edition.
- Credits
- Unicode/XML Leningrad Codex: UXLC 2.6 (27.7), Tanach.us Inc., West Redding, CT, USA, Oct 2026
- Rights
- Publisher permission: all biblical Hebrew text in any format may be viewed or copied without restriction
Torah, Prophets and Writings
Torah, Prophets and Writings
Tanakh takes its Hebrew name from the initials of its three divisions. Torah opens the collection with the five books from Genesis through Deuteronomy. Nevi’im, the Prophets, includes narrative books as well as collections of prophetic speech. Ketuvim, the Writings, brings together psalms, wisdom literature, festival scrolls and other works. These divisions give the collection a distinctive order and place books in company that can differ from a Christian Old Testament.
Languages and transmission
The books were composed and transmitted across many generations. Most of the text is Hebrew, with passages in Aramaic, including portions of Daniel and Ezra. The written signs for vowels and accents in the medieval manuscript tradition preserve information about how the consonantal text was read. These marks have a place in the history of transmission alongside the words they accompany.
Editions in this library
The English edition here is the Jewish Publication Society translation published in 1917. Its choice of vocabulary and its arrangement represent a particular Jewish publishing project in the English-speaking world. The Hebrew edition is the Unicode/XML Leningrad Codex transcription. A printed translation and a modern digital representation of a manuscript each give access to the collection through a different historical witness.