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Old 11-01-2007, 11:44 AM   #1
Yaakov
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Hebrew Bible:Jewish Publication Society 1917 Text v 1.0 01Nov07

Everyone,

Attached are the five books of the Hebrew Bible in English, plus the Book of Joshua (for now). The text is the 1917 translation by the Jewish Publication Society.

The source for the text was found at the Mechn-Mamre web site: http://www.mechon-mamre.org/e/et/et0.htm. The LRF file was created by converting the html to text, then using pielrf version 2.1.3. The "chapters" found in the Torah TOC reflect the weekly parashot (readings), and the paragraph breaks within the parashot are the bible chapters. For Joshua (and all subsequent books), the TOC is broken down simply by chapter. I believe this creates manageable size files with logical breaks for the TOC.

This translation is the most recent JPS version not in copyright (the most recent JPS translation was created in 1985, in a more modern English).

Perhaps a topic of future discussion should be whether the Bible (in its various forms and translations) is correctly assumed to be in the public domain.

Comments and suggestions on the created files are appreciated and will be considered in future versions.

Regards, Yaakov
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