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    Torah & Text

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    The Artist’s Torah
    David Eben­bach
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    Torah Con­ver­sa­tions with Nechama Leibowitz
    Benjamin S. Yasgur
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    Sin­ning in the Hebrew Bible: How The Worst Sto­ries Speak for Its Truth
    Alan F. Segal
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    Shar­ing the Jour­ney: The Hag­gadah for the Con­tem­po­rary Family
    Alan S. Yoffie; Mark Podwal, illus.
    Essay

    Hear­ing the Wom­en’s Songs — in Torah and in ​“The Big Sleep”

    Yes­ter­day, Jan­ice Stein­berg wrote about Yid­dish inflect­ed Eng­lish and the audio­book ver­sion of her nov­el The Tin Horse. She will be blog­ging here all week for Jew­ish…
    Jan­ice Steinberg
    January 30, 2013
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    Paths of Torah: An Anthol­o­gy of Torah Commentary
    Members of Congregation Netivot Shalom
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    Jew­ish Text
    Jew­ish-Chris­t­ian Dia­logues on Scrip­ture in Late Antiquity
    Michal Bar-Asher Siegel
    Cover of Rashi's Commentary on the Torah: Canonization and Resistance in the Reception of a Jewish Classic
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    Rashi’s Com­men­tary on the Torah: Can­on­iza­tion and Resis­tance in the Recep­tion of a Jew­ish Classic
    Eric Lawee
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    Sarah Schenir­er and the Bais Yaakov Movement
    Naomi Seidman
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    The Hebrew Bible: A Trans­la­tion with Commentary
    Robert Alter
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    Jacob: Unex­pect­ed Patriarch
    Yair Zakovitch
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    The En Yaaqov: Jacob ibn Habib’s Search for Faith in the Tal­mu­dic Corpus
    Marjorie Lehman
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    Jew­ish The­ol­o­gy and World Religions
    Alon Goshen-Gottstein and Eugene Korn, eds.
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    Esau’s Bless­ing: How the Bible Embraces Those with Spe­cial Needs
    Ora Horn Prouser
    Essay

    Arise! Arise! The Val­ues We Live By

    Ear­li­er this week, Debra Band dis­cussed how she visu­al­ly express­es Bib­li­cal sto­ries and shared the back sto­ry behind Arise! Arise! She had been blog­ging here all week…
    Debra Band
    December 7, 2012
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    Fresh Fruit & Vin­tage Wine: Ethics and Wis­dom of the Aggada
    Yitzchak Blau
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