		Translators of the Bible Into German: Moses Mendelssohn, Martin Luther, Martin Buber, Arnold Ehrlich, Franz Rosenzweig, Kaspar Ulenberg Paperback. Books LLC 2010-05-02. ISBN 9781155289069
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Moses Mendelssohn, Martin Luther, Martin Buber, Arnold Ehrlich, Franz Rosenzweig, Kaspar Ulenberg, Johann Dietenberger, Williram. Excerpt: Arnold Bogomul Ehrlich (15 January 1848, Wlodawka, Poland , November , 1919, New Rochelle , New York ) was a scholar of bible and rabbinics whose work spanned the latter part of the 19th and the early 20th century. A formidable scholar, he is said to have possessed perfect recall , with an outstanding knowledge of Bible and Talmud , and to have spoken 39 languages. He is best known for his book Mikra Kiphshuto ( The Bible according to its Literal Meaning ) in three Hebrew volumes published from 1899 1901, in which he sought to bring the results of modern textual criticism of the Bible to a wider Hebrew audience, emphasising the Torah to be a document made by humans complete with scribal and copying errors, not a perfect work dictated to Moses at Sinai; and as a formative intellectual influence on the young Mordecai Kaplan . Ehrlich earned a living as a private tutor, and teaching at the Hebrew Preparatory School of the Temple Emanu-El Theological School of New York. However, he was never considered for a professorial post at Hebrew Union College , apparently because in his early twenties he had helped the German Lutheran theologian Franz Delitzsch revise his Hebrew translation of the New Testament, a work used to proselytize Jewish converts to Christianity. Life Born Jewish in Wlodawka Poland, Ehrlich was married at fourteen and had one son named Mark. At an early age he studied German in his native Polish Village, and had read the Bible in the Moses Mendelssohn translation. At seventeen, Ehrlich came to the conclusion that he could no longer abide the stringencies of his environment and he sought association with the wider fields of knowled

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