today, if not most, would agree that it would be inappropriate for the Christian church to use as its OT the English Tanakh produced by the Jewish Publication Society. Of course, if the JPS English Tanakh were the only English translation of the Hebrew Bible available, then the English-speaking church would have little choice but to use it as our OT. And such was the situation in the Greek-speaking world of the 1st century in which the apostles wrote. Evangelicals deeply respect the Masoretic Text,
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