-What is a good English version available for Tanakh? A more faithfully translated one. (I don’t understand Hebrew).
-God would like everyone to lead a good life? If so, what are the parts of the Tanakh that non-Jewish people are supposed to follow? I only own the Old Testament of the Bible (not a Christian) and the books of Moses seem to contain quite a lot of laws and rituals. I think these laws are the same as in Tanakh. Are these expected for all people to follow to lead a good life, or just Jews?
-Does Judaism consider laws in Tanakh as “laws best suited at that time and at that place” when and where it was mentioned in the Bible, or more literally as universal laws transcending time and place? For ex, there’s a law about a woman having to marry her brother-in-law if her husband passed away without a son and the brothers were living in the same household. I know there’s also a ritual that can waive this, but if the brother-in-law in the modern day says he wants to marry the widow of his brother, what to do.
-Does Judaism consider/teach that Tanakh is absolute and error-proof, or does it consider Tanakh as the best human effort of compiling what has been passed onto humans by God through oral traditions, prophecies, etc, but with possible room for errorr due to human mistakes in writing and passing things down?
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