Word: hebrews
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...true translation, insists the Bible Society's Eugene A. Nida. The Living Bible is "interested in what the author intended. We are interested in what he said." This does not mean word-for-word translation. Says one project expert, "There is no way to translate the Hebrew poetic form into decent English." The modernizers did, however, preserve the meaning of every sentence. Besides its readable style, the Good News Bible helps readers along with explanatory notes, and it is graced with 500 stylized line drawings by Swiss Artist Annie Vallotton...
...station in Vienna, where Russian Jews arrive in the West by train. Nearly all emigrants must travel on Israeli visas to meet Soviet requirements for exit. Those wishing to proceed to the U.S., however, may stop in Vienna and request rerouting to the U.S. They apply to the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) and other American humanitarian organizations for financial and practical assistance...
...used 20th century Bible translation, and two dozen scholars are working on a new edition to be issued in the mid-1980s. At their annual gathering last June, the translators took up the sexism issue and readily agreed to drop masculine language that is not included in the original Hebrew or Greek text...
...child of Russian Jews who had just emigrated from St. Petersburg. His father, an educated man, became a small-time trader and, in Bellow's phrase, "a sharpie circa 1905 in Russia." In 1924 the family settled on Division Street in Chicago; Bellow thus grew up speaking English, Hebrew, Yiddish and French. Twice-removed from the land of his parents-and a Jew in the predominantly Protestant Midwest -Bellow had good reason to wonder where in the world he belonged...
Miss Barel, a master calligrapher, will teach the art of Hebrew calligraphy...