Five Jewish scholars have joined with 20 Christians, Catholic and Protestant, in an effort to coordinate a new, all-faith Bible that will be acceptable alike to Protestants, Catholics and Jews, it was announced here today by Anchor Books, a division of the publishing house of Doubleday & Co.
The plan is to compile a Protestant-Catholic version of the New Testament, bringing together the official, accepted texts of the two faiths; and another combined version of the Old Testament that would be acceptable alike to Jews and to all Christians. Thus far, the publishers said, the Old Testament version of the interfaith Bible has been started with a newly coordinated Book of Genesis.
The five Jewish scholars at work on the project are Professor Yigael Yadin and Professor David Flusser, of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem; Professor Ephraim Avigdor Speiser and Dr. Moshe Greenberg, of the University of Pennsylvania; and Professor H. J. Ginsberg, of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
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