THE NEW JEWISH VERSION (NJV) The first of the translations is a distinctly Jewish publication. In 1955 the Jewish Publication Society of America appointed a committee of seven scholars to prepare a new English translation of the Hebrew Scriptures, the first such translation to be sponsored by the Society since 1917. Late in 1962 the first part appeared under the title, The Torah, the Five Books of Moses: A New Translation of the Holy Scriptures According to the Masoretic Text. This New Jewish Version