Jewish Publication Society Bible JPS 1917

Who made it?

Jewish Publication Society translation committee.

Why was it made?

To provide English-speaking Jews with a Jewish translation of the Hebrew Scriptures.

How did it develop?

The 1917 JPS Holy Scriptures became a major English Jewish Bible of the twentieth century before the later NJPS/Tanakh revision project. It contains the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, not the New Testament.

What source texts did it use?

Masoretic Hebrew tradition