Isaac leesers holy scriptures
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Leeser’s Jewish Bible (1853)
The Twenty-four Books of the Holy Scriptures: Carefully Translated According to the Massoretic Text, On the Basis of the English Version, After the Best Jewish Authorities; and supplied with short explanatory notes.
By Isaac Leeser. Philadelphia, 1853.
Isaac Leeser (1806-1868) was a leading figure among American Jews during the 1840’s and 50’s. He was born in Germany, and came to America at the age of seventeen.
He was a devout Jew, and became the cantor of his congregation, and shortly thereafter the regular preacher.
Isaac leesers holy scriptures
He was the first to preach sermons in English from the lecturn. He devoted himself to educational projects, became prominent as a writer and publisher of Jewish books, and, perhaps most important of all, founded and edited a monthly Jewish magazine, called The Occident and American Jewish Advocate.
His Twenty-four Books of the Holy Scriptures (published by himself in 1853) was a revision of the King James Version