TY  - JOUR
A1  - Holzman, Gitit
A1  - Zuckermann, Ghil‘ad
T1  - Tanakh Ram: Translating the Hebrew Bible into Israeli
T2  - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture
N2  - The Ram Bible (Tanakh Ram) is a recently-published Bible edition printed in two columns: the right-hand column features the original biblical Hebrew text and the lefthand column features the translation of the Bible into a high-register literary Israeli (Reclaimed Hebrew). The Ram Bible edition has gained impressive academic and popular attention. This paper looks at differences between academics, teachers, students, media personalities and senior officials in the education system, regarding their attitude to the Ram Bible. Our study reveals that Bible teachers and students who make frequent use of this edition understand its contribution to comprehending the biblical language, stories, and ideas. Opponents of Ram Bible are typically administrators and theoretician scholars who advocate the importance of teaching the Bible but do not actually teach it themselves. We argue that the fundamental difference between biblical Hebrew and Israeli makes the Hebrew Bible incomprehensible to native Israeli speakers. We explain the advantages of employing tools such as the Ram Bible.
Y1  - 2019
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/47139
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-471395
SN  - 978-3-86956-468-5
SN  - 1614-6492
SN  - 1862-7684
VL  - 2019
IS  - 25
SP  - 105
EP  - 122
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -