The Tagged Tanakh is composed of two main types of content:
Content provided by scholarly experts and JPS staff including:
- Excerpts from JPS books
- Scholarly remarks
- Glossaries and pointers to traditional Jewish commentaries
- Related data (maps, images, videos and cross-references)
along with
User-generated content contributed by the masses including:
- Personal commentaries
- Questions and concerns
- Keyword Tags
The content strategy of the Tagged Tanakh enables people to search the Torah for words and concepts that did not originally appear in the Jewish Bible (like environmentalism or sexism) and then connect those ideas to sources found in Jewish tradition.
By identifying who contributes content to the Tagged Tanakh users can control their experience by filtering information according to the credentials and/or background of the contributor.
With the Tagged Tanakh everyone has the opportunity to share their interpretations of Torah, continuing the conversation that the rabbis started ages ago.
