Arnold Ehrlich

Arnold Bogumil Ehrlich (15 January 1848 in Volodovka, Brest-Litovsk – November 1919 in New Rochelle, New York) was a scholar of Jewish scripture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best known for his book ''Mik'ra Kiph'shuto'' ("The Plain Meaning of the Bible") in three Hebrew volumes published from 1899–1901, in which he sought to introduce a wider Hebrew audience to modern textual criticism of the Bible, and as a formative intellectual influence on the young Mordecai Kaplan. Ehrlich earned a living as a private tutor, and teaching at the Hebrew Preparatory School of the Temple Emanu-El Theological School of New York. However, he was never considered for a professorial post at Hebrew Union College, likely because of involvement as a young man with Hebrew translation of the New Testament used to proselytize Jewish converts to Christianity.

Ehrlich's exegetical work is an important contribution to modern biblical exegesis. Ehrlich's work was highly influential on the Jewish translation produced by the Jewish Publication Society in 1917 and its successor of 1962–82. Provided by Wikipedia