As Andrea Rapp pointed out, Old Testament is a term that reflects explicit
Christian bias.
The change is an attempt to do away with that bias and be as neutral as
possible.
Terms like Bereshit cannot be used because RDA has an Anglocentric bias--but
that's another story.
Beth Dwoskin
2005 Calumet
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
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In the interest of specificity, and at the risk of creating a
longer term, I suggest: B'reshith/Genesis (Hebrew Bible). I like this
because it includes the Hebrew term for the book, and places the book in the
Tanakh.
Beila Organic
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>To: 'Andrea Rapp' ; hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu ; 'Rachel Fischer'
>Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2012 8:42 PM
>Subject: Re: [ha-Safran] RDA and the Bible
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>Testament does NOT mean covenant… and NEVER has.
>
>While a collection of books that Christians call “New Testament” CAN be viewed
>as a will of some god, it is NOT (and does NOT even claim to be) similar to
>the collection of Hebrew books venerated by Jews as the writing describing a
>number of Covenants, i.e. Pacts, including the one between G-d of Israel and
>the Jewish nation something that Christian communities are NOT.
>
>Old Testament is a Christian title for the translations of certain ancient
>Jewish books that venerated by Christians, not by Jews. The content of “Old
>Testament” differs from one Christian church to another as is the sequence of
>the included books.
>Thus if we want to understand each other it is better to call each book
>individually, i.e. B’reshith/Genesis, Sh’mot/Exodus, etc.
>
>Alex
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>
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>[mailto:hasafran-boun...@lists.service.ohio-state.edu] On Behalf Of Andrea Rapp
>Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2012 4:41 PM
>To: hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu; Rachel Fischer
>Subject: Re: [ha-Safran] RDA and the Bible
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>Rachel, as I'm sure you'll hear from many, "Old Testament" itself is a
>Christian term.
>The "old covenant" (testament means covenant) is defunct, according to the
>early Church, and has been replaced by a new one, "in Christ."
> So Jews are generally grateful to see the terms "old" and "new" done away
>with. Especially "old." It has very negative connotations.
> Jewish Bible, or Hebrew Bible is generally preferred, and something like
>"Christian Scriptures" for the NT.
> I think Genesis (Bible) is fine, myself.
>
>--- On Sat, 6/2/12, Rachel Fischer <rkfisc...@att.net> wrote:
>
>From: Rachel Fischer
<rkfisc...@att.net>
>Subject: [ha-Safran] RDA and the
Bible
>To: hasafran@lists.service.ohio-state.edu
>Date: Saturday,
June 2, 2012, 5:07 PM
>Hi
>I am currently taking a class that is
comparing RDA to AACR2. I am unhappy with certain changes that RDA
is making. Module 4 in this training series:
http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/rda/trainthetrainer.html
talks about changes to how the bible should be represented. It
says that in the cases of individual books, like Genesis, we no
longer are supposed to label it as Old Testament, just Genesis,
Bible. I was wondering how others feel about this. I am wondering
if this is a step back to other people, besides me when it comes
to issues of a Christian bias. I want it to be labeled as the Old
Testament and given a distinction that shows that it is a Jewish
version and not a Christian version that has been published along
with a New Testament related series that would be part of a
Christian series. Has there been any discussion or complaints
about this that I haven't seen yet or are Jews in agreement that
this change is alright?
>
>Rachel Fischer
>MLIS Student-
Dominican University
>Volunteer Librarian- Oak Park Temple
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