Bureau of Jewish Education
Published: 2018-01-14
Total Pages: 162
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Excerpt from The Book of Genesis It is a common and lamented fact that most Jewish children in America are not taught to read the Bible with appreciation and pleasure. Conditions in this country are such that very few children ever become proficient enough in Hebrew for an understanding of the Bible in the original, and thus far, very little has been done to teach the Bible text in English. The Bible stories taught in Jewish Sun day Schools and homes cannot take the place of the Bible text. As stories, the Bible narratives have to compete with fairy tales, with Wild West thrillers, with tales of general history and adventure, and with the whole host of attractive stories ofiered to the modern Jewish child; and frequently the Bible narratives lose_in the competition. Only through the text itself can children'get a glimpse into the over powering genuineness, the enduring beauty of style, the primal simplicity of emphasis, the terse vigor, which make the Bible 3 supremely great literature. The American Jew who has not been taught the Bible text in childhood can rarely train himself to read the Bible in later life, because, even in its English translation, he finds the text strange, the diction quaint and unfamiliar, the phrase ology monotonous and the contents confusing. Clearly, if the Bible is to have real meaning to American Jews, it must be taught in childhood as text, if not in the original Hebrew, at least in the American Jewish translation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.