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The Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB) - A Preliminary Review
Posted by Lev/Christopher on November 6, 2008 at 6:54am in Bible Versions & MSS
Well, I finally got my copy of the OJB - a 1,232 page paberback volume. My first reaction was this: what is such an excellent translation doing in such an awful and hard-to-read layout? Three columns of tiny hard-to-read (I would guess) 10-point text with wasted space between the columns, and the footnotes not footnotes at all but incorporated into the referenced verses, making some of the verses ginormous. The poor layout kills it, in my view. On the plus side, this means that you don't have to carry a behomoth around with you like the RSTNE and HRV.
This version contains tons of Hebrew (and Yiddish) words in the text, far more than the RSTNE. Where it scores over the RSTNE is that it includes a lot of English equivalents in parentheses after the Hebrew sometimes and where it does not you are forced to consult a 66 page Glossary at the back. This, of course, makes it much bigger. Additionally, there's a good notes section and a useful Index.
This is not a True Names Bible, though - it curiously uses a mixture of Elohim and G-d without explaining why it chooses one or the other. YHWH is conspicuously absent and is replaced by haShem, doubtless to make this version usable by Orthodox Jews, for whom it is written. Oddly, it does not use Jesus, Yeshua or Yah'shua for the Messiah but simply (Rebbe) Melech haMoshiach (Rabbi the Messiah King) or Yehoshua (Joshua).
There are thousands of scriptural cross references and is more copiously cross-referenced than other Messianic Bibles. There is no trace of Two-House theology.
This is definitely a version to use when witnessing to Orthodox Jews and is worth owning by every Messianic.I bought my copy on Amazon where you can get it for a reasonable price. This is probably not one you'd want to use in congregational worship - it's really a study Bible.
Philip Goble has done an excellent job IMO and this Bible rightly occupies a place alongside the ISRV, HRV, CJB and RSTNE. I hope there will be many more.
I will add more when I have properly studied it.
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Reply by Lev/Christopher on November 10, 2008 at 2:49am
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