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mab
mab Member Posts: 3,071 ✭✭✭
edited November 2024 in English Forum

Curious if anyone might know how well Neusner 's version relates to the more classic Danby. I have a print copy of Danby but am not familiar enough to know if the former is supposed to be sufficient for reference. 

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  • Mark Barnes
    Mark Barnes Member Posts: 15,432 ✭✭✭

    Neusner is a standard modern translation. Comparing multiple translations can often be helpful, of course. but in most cases Neusner will be sufficient.

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  • David Paul
    David Paul Member Posts: 6,073 ✭✭✭

    I for one would like to have an alternative/comparative text/translation available in Logos. [Y]

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  • mab
    mab Member Posts: 3,071 ✭✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/224040#Comment_224040

    Nearly fell off my chair when I saw how expensive Danby is today in print. Retail is $299. 

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  • Vincent Setterholm
    Vincent Setterholm Member Posts: 459 ✭✭

    Neusner breaks each passage into sense units - an outline form that lets you see the structure of the argument being made. Danby is more of a straight prose presentation. They're both useful and I wouldn't mind seeing Danby digitized, but if I had to have only one, I'd take Neusner because the structural presentation is, I think, an effective aid to unpacking the meaning of the (often dense) text.

    Neusner applies the same sense-unit method to his translations of the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds, shipping soon:

    http://www.logos.com/product/6667/babylonian-and-jerusalem-talmud-collection

     

  • mab
    mab Member Posts: 3,071 ✭✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/224070#Comment_224070

    That's a very helpful explanation. Anything that clarifies the text is good. Trying to read some of that stuff makes me want to reach for an Excedrin. 

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