The Five Books of Moses: Being Volume the First of The Bible in Modern English, Translated Direct from the Hebrew, Chaldee, and Greek Languages Into English (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Ferrar Fenton

9780260479211: The Five Books of Moses: Being Volume the First of The Bible in Modern English, Translated Direct from the Hebrew, Chaldee, and Greek Languages Into English (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0260479217 ISBN 13: 9780260479211

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Excerpt from The Bible in Modern English, Vol. 1: Five Books of Moses

The very favourable reception given by the most eminent Scholars, Divines, and the general Public, to my translations of St. Paul's Epistles, the New Testament, and the Book of Job into Modern English, has removed all need for my making any apology for this First Volume of The Bible in Modern English, containing the Five Books of Moses. The sale of the preceding portions has been extensive, St. Paul's Epistles having reached a Sixth Edition, the Gospels two large issues, one of and the second of copies, and the Book ofjob two editions.

In the Books of Moses now presented I have followed my plan of making a translation direct from the Hebrew into English without any other version before me. I do not consequently claim my work to be free from error, the more so as, owing to the severe illness of a very learned friend who had intended to revise it, I have had to make the translation single-handed, and not with the valuable assistance he gave me in my former portions of the Sacred Scriptures. The loss of his help, however, has been partially supplied by the aid of that ripe Hebrew Scholar, the Rev. John bowen, b.d., Rector of St. Lawrence, Wolfs Castle, Pembrokeshire, whose critical knowledge of Oriental tongues, and all the Authorities upon Hebrew, has been of vital assistance to me, especially in the Books of Genesis and Deuteronomy.

But in so entirely a new plan of Translation and Criticism as I have adopted many errors will no doubt be found, and if my readers will point out to me any parts where errors or omission of words may be discovered, I shall be grateful, and record them in my interleaved copy for a future edition.

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