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Newspaper Article
A Children's Bible That Appeals More to Adults Than to Kids
2009
Overview
Ellen Frankel, CEO and editor-in-chief of the Jewish Publication Society, has labored for the better part of her career to make Jewish traditional texts more palatable to a general audience. The new \"JPS Illustrated Children's Bible\" - a hybrid of JPS's modern translation, along with Frankel's reinterpretations of words and phrases that were archaic, awkward or weird - is clean and 'precise. From the first sentence, it's clear we're reading a translation that's both old-school and vibrant: \"In the very beginning, God created a world the heavens and the earth - out of nothing. But this world was without rhyme or reason.\" In the greatest picture books, from illuminated manuscripts to \"Goodnight Moon,\" the art takes the story and one-ups it. Here, the design shouts a halfhearted \"amen.\" With JPS's innovation in other areas witness its recent comic version of \"Megillat Esther\" - it seems a shame that the \"Illustrated Children's Bible\" has lost sight of what really attracts kids.
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The Forward Association, Inc
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