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A handy and welcome contribution for those who want to read the key comments by the major Jewish medieval commentators.-Kenneth Bergland, Bulletin for Biblical Research
First published five hundred years ago as the "Rabbinic Bible," the biblical commentaries known as Miqra'ot Gedolot have inspired and educated generations of Hebrew readers. With this fourth volume of the acclaimed English edition, the voices of Rashi, Ibn Ezra, Nachmanides, Rashbam, and other medieval Bible commentators come alive once more, speaking in a contemporary English translation annotated and explicated for lay readers.
Each page of this volume contains several verses from the book of Deuteronomy, surrounded by both the 1917 and the 1985 JPS translations and by new contemporary English translations of the major commentators. This edition also includes introductory material, a glossary of terms, a list of names used in the text, notes on source texts, essays on special topics, and resources for further study.
Contents
Conventions and Abbreviations
Frequently Asked Questions
What's on the Page?
Text
Translations
Questions
Major Commentators
Editor's annotations
Additional Commentators
Principles of the Translation
Acknowledgments
The Commentators' Bible
Deuteronomy
Glossary
Names Mentioned in the Text
Source Texts
Special Topics
Tithes
Peshat and Derash
Interpreting Biblical Law
Medieval Jewish Philosophy
Nachmanides' Mysticism
Biblical Hebrew
The Jewish Calendar
Sources for Further Study
Other English Translations
