
The Hebrew Bible in English according to the JPS 1917 Edition

(c) 2001 all rights reserved to Mechon Mamre for this HTML version


If you know some Hebrew, try our Hebrew - English Bible at
http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0.htm

The JPS Bible for the Palm Pilot at
http://www.mechon-mamre.org/pdbjps.htm


Contents in Original Hebrew Bible Order:

Torah - Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy

Prophets - Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel,
Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah,
Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi

Writings - Chronicles, Psalms, Job, Proverbs, Ruth, Song of Songs,
Ecclesiastes, Lamentations, Esther, Daniel, Ezra / Nehemiah

Preface to the JPS 1917 Edition


The English text in this HTML edition of the Hebrew Bible is based on
the text-format transcription by Larry Nelson (Box 2083, Rialto, CA
92376 USA, nelsonlarry@juno.com) as found on the Internet in differing
copies. In addition to converting his text to HTML, we did correct a
few typographical errors, based mostly on comparing the various text
versions we found, and took out all of the paragraph marks (), which
were not based on the Hebrew original. We have added signs for the
paragraphs found in the original Hebrew: In the poetical books of
Psalms, Job (aside from the beginning and end), and Proverbs, each
verse normallly starts on a new line; where there is a new line within
a verse, we added {N}, and when there is a blank line, we added {P}.
In the rest of the books, we added {S} for setumah (open space within
a line) and {P} for petuHah (new paragraph on new line) according to
our Hebrew Bible). We have not tried to reproduce the complex
structure of the special songs such as in Exodus 15 and Deuteronomy
32, as we do not think that that would make sense in English.

This HTML version should be readable in any Browser, including
freeware browsers for DOS, Win3x, Win9x, ME, NT, Win2000, and XP.
