Bible & Biblical Commentary

This book presents a fresh portrayal of Isaac as a father and as a prototype for the stories of second-generation figures in the Bible

Yefet ben 'Eli's Commentary on II Samuel and I Kings 1-2

Sources & Studies Series

This book gathers all the derashot for the Book of Jonah from the Talmud and Midrash literature (150 sermons). The derashot are arranged according to the biblical sequence of verses in each chapter.

A broad historical perspective informs this book, as well as an inclusive consideration of Rashi’s many and variegated writings related directly or indirectly to the Jewish-Christian polemic, which gained momentum in his lifetime.

The edition includes the original text in Judeao-Arabic of Yefet's translation and commentary on the Book of Zephaniah, and a Hebrew translation accompanied by rich notes and comparisons to sages' sources, medieval sources and even modern sources.

An Annotated Scientific Edition of the Second Part of the Commentary of Rabbi Avraham Ibn Ezra, one of the greatest commentators of all generations, on the Book of Isaiah.

An annotated critical edition of Ibn Ezra's two commentaries on Megilat Esther.

This most important book of Ibn Ezra, The Foundation of Awe and the Secret of the Torah, devoted to the numeration, classification and explanation of the biblical commandments, is written in an extremely short and enigmatic style. In order to make it acce

This book deals with fundamental questions of Ibn Ezra’s methodology, polemical pressures and the quest for truth, criticism and conservatism, his attitude to history and science, and the history of supercommentaries to his interpretation.

This critical annotated edition of the commentary of R. Avraham ben Shelomo on the book of Isaiah also includes an illuminating introduction to the place of Bible exegesis in Yemen and to R. Avraham ben Shelomo’s place within it.

This collection sets out for the reader an approach to Biblical study that recognises how the combination of various disciplines may deepen one’s understanding of scripture.

This book gathers and explains all the derashot on the books of Joel and Amos from the entire corpus of rabbinic literature: the Talmud and the Midrashim (about 650 derashot).

Winner of the Rabbi Moshe Malka Prize for Torah Literature!! Shadal is regarded as the first of the modern Jewish commentators. The book sets out his outlook in terms of his exegetical and critical approach and his beliefs lying behind it.

A collection of essays relating to the following areas of biblical research: biblical narrative, history, and historiography on the background of the Ancient Near Eastern texts and biblical theology.

The figure of Moses, his leadership and his history, are recorded in the Torah, and he emerges as an impressive personality: lawmaker, prophet, leader and man. Ahad Ha'am remarked that the figure of Moses is a subject for the learned, but not for them

The book analyses the theme ''Abraham in the Furnace'' from a historical and contextual perspective by means of more than ninety written Jewish story versions. The personal story of Abraham, as a rebellious individual, merges with the national story of th

investigates the ways in which the literature of the American Renaissance negotiates the ethical, theological, political, and aesthetic implications of the Bible’s entanglement in the mid-nineteenth-century debates over slavery. By examining the intersec

A collection of essays relating to the following areas of biblical research: biblical narrative, history, and historiography on the background of the Ancient Near Eastern texts and biblical theology.

The book presents a critical annotated edition of Yefet's central work on biblical prophecy, containing an extensive Introduction, the Judaeo-Arabic source text of Yefet's translation and commentary on Hosea.

This book offers a comprehensive study of the authority and status of the king in early rabbinic literature and analyses three conceptions of kingship in biblical literature.

This book surveys ideas about the arrangement of Biblical stories and laws, beginning with the Rabbis’ observation that “There is no ‘earlier or ‘later’ in the Torah” and the midrashic question “Why were these two chapters juxtaposed?,” and moving on t

This volume traces the history of Hebrew versification from biblical poetry, through ancient Hebrew liturgy, medieval poetry, poetry of the Haskalah, and finally modern Hebrew poetry. After the biblical period, all systems of versification demanded umeric

Co-published with Orot Israel College Press. A collection of articles on biblical exegesis and Jewish Bible commentators through the ages: inner-biblical interpretation, Second Temple exegesis, Targum Onkelos, rabbinic and medieval figures s

The papers in this collection are divided into three groups according to the ways in which economic methods are applied. Part I uses the analytical tools of economics to enrich our understanding of’Jewish approaches to various activities and ’to’provide i

This book deals with legal and social aspects of Ancient Near Eastern cultures, including biblical Eretz Israel. The author's approach is multidisciplinary and humanistic, focusing on texts as a key to understanding the lives of the people who lived in th

In this volume the Septuagint is translated from Greek to Hebrew. The Greek version serves as the oldest textual testimony and exegesis. The book includes a suggested reconstruction of the original Hebrew text with emphasis on the differences between the

This is the first modern Hebrew dictionary to the Hebrew Bible. A previous edition published 20 years ago comprised 3 volumes (alef-tet).

In this volume, the biblical exegetic methodology of Rashbam is described against the historical background of his time. The exegesis of Rashbam is outlined as a whole, with special emphasis on two essential principles that guide his interpretative approa

A collection of essays relating to the following areas of biblical research: The Masoretic text, biblical Hebrew, rabbinical and medieval Jew- ish exegesis and biblical miscellany.

This volume presents a collection of rabbinic legends about the Book of Job and the man Job. The rabbinic sources include varied opinions regarding Job himself and the basic philosophical problems inherent in this text. This new volume includes material f

This book traces the development of the debate between moderns (Aharonim) and ancients (Rishonim) in Medieval and Renaissance Jewish thought, from Sa'adia Gaon to Spinoza. It concentrates on the evolution of the moderns' response to the authority of t

All rabbinic comments which deal with verses from the Book of Hosea have been collected from the entire corpus of midrashic and halakhic literature. Each comment is cited and explained, giving particular attention to its function as biblical exegesis.

A collection of essays depicting the figure of Abraham as reflected in texts from biblical to contemporary times, including Midrash, ancient and medieval philosophy, Kabbalah, as well as Christian and Islamic conceptions of Abraham as the father of th

The third volume in the series of R. Judah ibn Bal'am's commentaries (second half of the 11th century in Spain), contains the commentary on Jeremiah. This unique vestige of the medieval Spanish scholar's oeuvres, based on manuscripts from the Firkowitch

Essays on biblical literature, exegesis, historiography and manuscript research, modern biblical scholarship from the Jewish point of view

Levi ben Gershon, Ralbag or Gersonides (Provence, 1288-1344), philosopher, exegete and halakhist, as well as astronomer and mathe-matician is one of medieval Judaism's most interesting figures. This volume presents a critical edition of Gersonides' commen

It is widely recognized that poetical and theological texts are by nature paradoxical. This book is a first attempt to explore the Hebrew Bible and the rabbinic literature from this point of view. It includes a discussion of the typical antinomies charact

A literary reading of seven stories about prophets from Samuel to Elisha combining three disciplines: close reading, form criticism and structural analysis. An appendix deals with the role of minor characters in the biblical narrative. Co-published wi

This second volume contains a commentary on Ezekiel based on the manuscript from the Firkowitch collection in St. Petersburg, with the original Arabic, Hebrew translation and notes. From the series ''Sources and Studies'', the Institute for the His

Collected writings of Prof. Yehuda Elitzur (1911-1997) including approximately 60 revised studies which demonstrate his unique approach to Bible research, combining strict research methods with a deep faith. His studies, dealing mainly with the narrative

Collection of articles by renowned scholars in Israel and abroad, dealing with social, economic and intellectual history, Bible exegesis and translation, philosophy and polemics, literature and linguistics. Based on lectures delivered at the Sixth Interna

Essays on biblical literature, exegesis, historiography and manuscript research, modern biblical scholarship from the Jewish point of view

The writings of Abraham Ibn Ezra (1089-1167) include biblical exegesis and theological treatises as well as a scientific corpus written for the first time in Hebrew, which can be regarded as ''the beginning of Hebrew Science''. In this book the author

Essays on biblical literature, exegesis, historiography and manuscript research, modern biblical scholarship from the Jewish point of view

This collection of articles written by scholars involved in research and in teaching unfolds a variety of methods suitable for use in the teaching of portions of the Torah and the Prophets in secondary schools.

Examining issues concerning Bible teaching today, the author discusses the respective contributions of traditional exegesis and of modern scholarly research to a meaningful study of the Bible.

Essays on biblical literature, exegesis, historiography and manuscript research, modern biblical scholarship from the Jewish point of view

Shirat Miqra argues on the basis of solid biblical and literary scholarship that biblical poetics is marked by an unusual tension between the aesthetic and non-aesthetic modes of discourse: it is "Poetry with a Purpose''. The author applies this thesis to

This first volume opens a series of publications of the commentaries to the Bible by R. Judah ibn Bal'am (second half of the 11th century), the first Rabbanite Bible exegete in the Arabic language on Spanish soil in the Middle Ages. The Arabic commentary

The Rabbi Dr. Shmuel Belkin Prize of Yeshiva University, New York, 1995. This study analyses a Pentateuch incunabulum, with handwritten marginal notes from the 16th century, which provides accurate evidence of the text, and the layout of the Sections a

A 13th-Century Latin Commentary on the Song of Solomon The text, published for the first time from the unique manuscript, is an anonymous Latin ver-sion of Rashi's commentary on the Song of Songs, which adapts Rashi to the intellectual and religious co

These volumes add a new dimension to the study of ancient versions of Aramaic dialectology and of the history of Bible exegesis. With the assistance of Rimon Kasher. From the series "Sources and Studies'', the Institute for the History of Jewish Bible

These volumes add a new dimension to the study of ancient versions of Aramaic dialectology and of the history of Bible exegesis. With the assistance of Rimon Kasher. From the series "Sources and Studies'', the Institute for the History of Jewish Bible

A critical edition with explanatory notes on both the standard and a newly-discovered com-mentary. Includes an accurate text of the two commentaries and extensive notes illuminating obscurities in Ibn Ezra's commentaries and evaluating his originality.<br

An annotated edition of a work which, when first published in 1816, constituted a breakthrough in Hebrew poetics and in the study of biblical poetry. The text is introduced by a detailed monograph on the author and his work.

The book describes the Bible in its making and explains the process of its canonization.

The author discusses the concept of "return to Zion'' (Shivath Zion), in its historic context. Biblical and post-biblical Jewish sources are confronted with external material and some conventional assumptions

Essays on biblical literature, exegesis, historiography and manuscript research, modern biblical scholarship from the Jewish point of view

In compiling this unique dictionary, Prof. Ratzaby has methodically and minutely examined the Arabic language used by R. Sa'adya Gaon in his translation of the Bible and in his commentaries. Words of exceptional form or meaning, not included in the cl

The articles focus on the Tel Aviv Metropolitan area and its rural surroundings, and deal with the implication of the physical setting and the historical evolution of its settlement. Including maps, diagrams, sketches.

Essays on biblical literature, exegesis, historiography and manuscript research, modern biblical scholarship from the Jewish point of view

Awarded prize in competition for the beautiful Israeli book, 1981, Israeli Design Center. The first printed edition of the Latin text of a biblical commentary by Langton, exegete, statesman and preacher (c. 1190). A critical edition of this importa

A new linguistic methodology applied to the ''Book of Books'': Verbal complements in the biblical Hebrew sentence are dealt with in a transformational approach. A detailed description of the frequently appearing verb 'N-t-N' is offered, showing the correl

The original edition of this important Aramaic text dating to the late second century B.C.E. appeared in 1971. In this book a new edition of the text based on a re-reading of the photographs is presented along with an English translation. The language of