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    Torah & Text

    Cover of Digging Through the Bible: Understanding Biblical People, Places, and Controversies Through Archaeology
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    Dig­ging Through the Bible: Under­stand­ing Bib­li­cal Peo­ple, Places, and Con­tro­ver­sies Through Archaeology
    Richard A. Freund
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    Nehama Lei­bowitz: Teacher and Bible Scholar
    Yael Unterman
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    The Tal­mud: What It Is and What It Says
    Jacob Neusner
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    Jew­ish Choic­es, Jew­ish Voic­es: Power
    Elliot N. Dorff and Louis E. Newman, ed.
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    Chil­dren’s
    Light
    Jane Bresken Zalben
    Cover of Torah Through Time: Understanding Bible Commentary From the Rabbinic Period to Modern Times
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    Torah Through Time: Under­stand­ing Bible Com­men­tary From the Rab­binic Peri­od to Mod­ern Times
    Shai Cherry
    Cover of How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now
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    How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scrip­ture, Then and Now
    James L. Kugel
    Cover of Talmud Study in Yeshiva High Schools
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    Tal­mud Study in Yeshi­va High Schools
    Aharon Lichtenstein & Yehuda Brandes; Jeffrey Saks ed.
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    Midrash Man­i­cures: The Torah on Your Tips

    Post­ed by Sharon B.For­get those lit­tle flow­ers you used to get paint­ed on your pinkie when you were nine– join the big leagues of man­i­cure mania with Rab­bi Yael Buech­ler…
    Sharon Bruce
    December 7, 2011
    Cover of Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible
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    Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilar­i­ous, Dis­turb­ing, Mar­velous, and Inspir­ing Things I Learned When I Read Every Sin­gle Word of the Bible
    David Plotz
    Cover of Canon Without Closure: Torah Commentaries
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    Canon With­out Clo­sure: Torah Commentaries
    Ismar Schorsch
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    Hills of Spices: Poet­ry From the Bible
    Rena Potok, ed.
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    Water From the Well: Sarah, Rebekah, Rachel, and Leah
    Anne Roiphe
    Cover of Genesis–The Book with Seventy Faces: A Guide for the Family
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    Gen­e­sis – The Book with Sev­en­ty Faces: A Guide for the Family
    Esther Takac; Anna Pignataro, illus.
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    Hous­es of Study: A Jew­ish Woman Among Books
    Ilana M. Blumberg
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    Green Bible Sto­ries for Children
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