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Subject(s)

• Bible Pentateuch—Commentaries [Browse]

Editor

• Carasik, Michael [Browse]

Translator

• Carasik, Michael [Browse]

Summary note

• Abarbanel, Rashi, Rashbam, Ibn Ezra, Nahmanides, and selections from the Masorah and Bekhor Shor, Kimhi, Hizkuni, Gersonides, and Sforno -- Special topics: Tithes, Peshat and derash, Interpreting Biblical law, Medieval Jewish philosophy, Ibn Ezra's philosophy, Nahmanides' mysticism, Biblical Hebrew, the Jewish calendar.
• For the first time, Miqra'ot Gedolot is available in an accessible English edition. First published 500 years ago as the "Rabbinic Bible," the biblical commentaries known as the Miqra'ot Gedolot have inspired and educated generations of Hebrew readers. With this edition, the voices of Rashi, Ibn Ezra, Nahmanides, Rashbam, and other medieval commentators come alive once more, speaking in a contemporary English translation annotated and explicated for lay readers. Each page of The Commentators' Bible contains several Hebrew verses from the book of Exodus, surrounded by both the 1917 and 1985 JPS translations and new English translations of the major commentators. This large-format volume is beautifully designed for ease of navigation among the many elements on each page, including explanatory notes and selected additional comments from the works of Bekhor Shor, Hizkuni, Abarbanel, Sforno, Gersonides, and others--Publisher.

Notes

Hebrew text based on Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia.

Bibliographic references

Last two pages of each volume includes "Resources for further study" and "Other English translations".

Language note

Bible text in Hebrew and English; commentaries in English.

Contents

• [V. 1] Genesis
• [v. 2] Exodus
• [v. 3] Leviticus
• [v. 4] Numbers
• [v. 5] Deuteronomy.

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Other title(s)

• Miḳraʼot gedolot
• מקראות גדולות
• Bible. Pentateuch. Hebrew. Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. 2005
• Bible. Pentateuch. English. Jewish Publication Society. 1917
• Bible. Pentateuch. English. Jewish Publication Society. 1985
• Bible. Pentateuch. English. Jewish Publication Society. 2005

ISBN

• 9780827609426 ((v. 1))
• 0827609426 ((v. 1))
• 0827608128 ((v. 2))
• 9780827608122 ((v. 2))
• 0827608977 ((v. 3))
• 9780827608979 ((v. 3))
• 9780827609211 ((v. 4))
• 9780827609396 ((v. 5))
• 0827609396 ((v. 5))
• 0827609213

LCCN

2004030331

OCLC

57349069

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