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Christian expositors.
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Bible, which is considerably more liberal in tone, based on sceptical sources that accept the documentary hypothesis as the Bible's origin and question the accuracy of its accounts of Jewish history.
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Soncino translations and commentaries are based, largely, on traditional Jewish sources. They accept the Bible as divine and the biblical history of
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English texts of the Hebrew Bible in parallel columns, with a running commentary below them. The Hebrew text in Psalms was originally that of
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comprises a translation, with brief commentaries in its footnotes. The
Soncino Haggadah is a translation and commentary on the Haggadah by
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