Rachel: regardless of your educational background in Judaism and regardless of the denomination of your Temple, we are speaking about a librarian choice for you organization. It is true that both the Library of Congress and the Melville Dewey Classification system utilize the terms Old and New Testament but it is your library and you can choose the nomenclature which best suits your congregation. Simplest of all is to call the Holy Scriptures or Tenakh, the Bible. and then to show the various portions by their Hebrew and English names. In that way you educate your community to the Hebrew as well as the English terms and as a librarian that is a literacy service you should strive to perform. Bettylene W. Franzus, Librarian and Archivist B'nai Sholom Congregation, Bristol, TN
"This above all, to thine own self be true. And it shall follow, as the night follows day, thou canst not then be false to any man." --- On Mon, 6/4/12, Rachel Fischer <[email protected]> wrote: From: Rachel Fischer <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ha-Safran] RDA and the Bible To: "Hasafran" <[email protected]> Date: Monday, June 4, 2012, 7:20 AM I was raised as a Reform Jew in a very secular congregation. The synagogue really didn't keep Kosher. It would be impossible to forbid people from bringing in baked goods from non-Kosher bakeries in the area, without any Kosher restaurants. I think the Reform community just gravitates towards calling the Bible the Old Testament and New Testament in our region without thinking about any other way of saying it. The amount of Hebrew we learn is very minimal compared to more religious synagogues. So it seemed natural to not think about saying anything else in a religious discussion, but calling the Bible the Old Testament. Even the word Chumash has been very foreign and unheard of to me until I was 21, although Tanakh is obvious and we would use that besides the word Torah because we would get the JPS Tanakh and not the Chumash. Rachel --- On Sun, 6/3/12, Andrea Rapp <[email protected]> wrote: From: Andrea Rapp <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ha-Safran] RDA and the Bible To: [email protected] Cc: "Hasafran" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, June 3, 2012, 9:21 AM No need to "shout, " but brit/covenant has been translated (first by St. Jerome, I believe) as "testament." (i.e. testamentum) So the point is that the use of the terms Old and New Testament reflects a supersessionist/replacement theology, a bias against Judaism - the assertion that Judaism's covenant is the old one, and has been replaced with a new one. Andrea --- On Sat, 6/2/12, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: Testament does NOT mean covenant… and NEVER has. -----Inline Attachment Follows----- __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) ================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [email protected] To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: [email protected] Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list [email protected] https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran -----Inline Attachment Follows----- __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) ================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [email protected] To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: [email protected] Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list [email protected] https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
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