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* The Contemporary Torah: A Gender-Sensitive Adaptation of the JPS Translation, published in 2006, includes the Five Books of Moses and a supplementary “ Dictionary of Gender in the Torah .” Its version of NJPS, which goes by the abbreviation CJPS, is “ contemporary ” in its use of gendered language only where germane, and in its drawing upon recent scholarship about gender roles in the ancient Near East.

With regard to human beings, the CJPS adaptation sets out to represent the gender implications of the Torah ’ s language as its composer ( s ) counted on the original audience to receive them, given the gender assumptions of that time and place.

With regard to God, the CJPS adaptation employs gender-neutral language except where certain poetic passages invoke gendered imagery.