Tanach: The Stone, Student Size Black (Hebrew and English Edition)

I absolutely love this Tanach. Excellent quality the book is sturdy and beautiful. So easy to read. Really appreciate the appendices at the back of the book. I have gifted several of these.

I recently ordered this artscroll stone edition tanach and it's excellent. Zeh tanach hu tov maod. That means this tanach is very good in Hebrew. I can read ancient Hebrew on an intermediate level and I read the Hebrew text more than the English translation but the English translation is excellent and I love the clear Hebrew type and vowel markings and the classic commentary from the talmud and the midrashim. The binding is very strong and the cover is so beautiful. I love the strong ribbon page marker. My favorite part of the tanach to read is sefer tehillim. The book of psalms. I can read about 60 of the 150 psalms without needing to look up any Hebrew words in my brown driver Briggs Hebrew and English lexicon. I find that the print and binding in this tanach is much better than with my biblia hebraica stuttgartensia compact edition . This is a much better tanach than any jps translations. I grew up going to a reformed synagogue and my mother of blessed memory was Jewish and I really paid attention in Hebrew school but still forgot alot after my bar mitzvah but in recent years I've been refreshing and expanding my knowledge of ancient Hebrew and even though I'm not a really religious Jew I have great respect for our history and language and tradition and I am spiritual and believe in ha Shem and say Baruch ha Shem for preserving the Jewish ppl and our sacred tanach. I strongly recommend learning ancient Hebrew because the English is no where near as beautiful to read as the Hebrew especially in the sefer tehillim

Never having learned Hebrew, the only way I am able to study the Torah (and the Tanach) is through a good English translation. I was referred to this particular edition by a friend of mine in the Orthodox Jewish community who also teaches at Yale University.It's excellent. The English translations are clear, poetic, and (after conferring with many friends in the Orthodox community) true to the original Hebrew. The edition also comes with Talmudic annotations to enhance your understanding and enjoyment of each text. English and Hebrew appear side by side, affording you the opportunity to study Hebrew, as well.Beautiful and accessible, this edition also contains a variety of indexes addressing everything from biblical lineage to the appropriate Torah, Nevi'im or Kethuvim texts to study for particular holidays. It has become an essential part of my growth as a Jew and I would refer anyone to this edition (Jewish or not) who doesn't know Hebrew, but would like to enhance their understanding of the Torah.

I have been wanting a translation like this for a while. I am new (have glanced at it before) to this translation. I am a Christian. I have a bachelors degree in Bible Theology. But I felt like I was missing something. I started looking into my Interlinear Hebrew-English Bible but things that I needed better understanding i was missing out.Exactly today it has been a week since I got it and started reading. Like I have said. It has given me new joy to read this bible. I look forward to reading it. I am at Exodus 15. As I read I can imagine their journey.Anyways. I had ordered by mistake the pocket size. I am 60 yrs old. And the font was too small. I was able to return and ordered the student edition. It's beautiful. Solid hard covers. Pages are too thin and do get stuck together. Also too thin so you need to be careful in turning the pages because they will tear (I almost did that).Translation is what I needed. Commentaries are good. Some don't explain well enough but give an opinion.Over all I recommend.

This is one of my favorite versions of The Tanahk it is very well put together and makes me proud to have had the opportunity to Honor My FATHER YAHWEH with such a special work of THE WORD OF YAHWEH.

After years of uncertainty about the accuracy of my Bibles (King James and New International Version), I have decided to get a Jewish one. 99% of the Old Testament were written in Old Hebrew, and while the language has evolved, I hope a Jewish translation would be more accurate than a Gentile one, given Hebrew is their native tongue.I am not a scholar and don't care to verify my Tanach against original scrolls - if I can find or understand them - and so I hope I have made the right decision in my quest for an accurate, fundamentalist Bible. The Jewish reviewers here seem content with the quality of translation and so I'll have to take their word for it. The best thing would be to learn Hebrew, but given how few people speak it, I would be better off learning Chinese. The editor admits the authors eschewed transliteration to gain a more fluent English translation. I will consult the Christian Bible for New Testament scripture.The layout and big typeface make it easy on the eyes. It includes commentaries and other aids like maps, family trees and so forth, and is written in modern English. No more 'thee,' 'thou,' 'art,' or 'ye.' The pages turn left to right which induces a sense of authenticity for this Gentile.Amen!