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Torah & Text

Cover of The Ten Commandments: How Our Most Ancient Moral Text Can Renew Modern Life
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The Ten Com­mand­ments: How Our Most Ancient Moral Text Can Renew Mod­ern Life
David Hazony
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Trans­la­tion and Sur­vival: The Greek Bible of the Ancient Jew­ish Diaspora
Tessa Rajak
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Jew­ish Choic­es, Jew­ish Voic­es: Sex and Intimacy
Elliot N. Dorff and Danya Ruttenberg, eds.
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Begin­nings: Reflec­tions on the Bible’s Intrigu­ing ​“Firsts”
Meir Shalev; Stuart Schoffman, trans.
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Vision & Val­or: An Illus­trat­ed His­to­ry Of The Talmud
Rabbi Berel Wein
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The Wis­dom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes
Robert Alter
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Chil­dren’s
Time for Torah
Devorah Schwebel; Tova Katz, illus.
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Jew­ish Choic­es, Jew­ish Voic­es: Social Justice
Elliot N. Dorff & Danya Ruttenberg, eds.
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Nar­rat­ing the Law: A Poet­ics of Tal­mu­dic Legal Stories
Bar­ry Scott Wimpfheimer
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Between Rashi and Mai­monides: Themes in Medieval Jew­ish Thought, Lit­er­a­ture, and Exegesis
Ephraim Kanarfogel and Moshe Sokolow, eds.
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The Sages: Char­ac­ter, Con­text, and Cre­ativ­i­ty, Vol. 1: The Sec­ond Tem­ple Period
Rabbi Binyamin Lau; Michael Prawer, trans.
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Sage Tales: Wis­dom and Won­der from the Rab­bis of the Talmud
Rabbi Burton L. Visotzky
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The Wash­ing­ton Hag­gadah: A Fif­teenth-Cen­tu­ry Man­u­script from the Library of Congress
Joel ben Simeon; David Stern, trans.
Cover of Biblical Seductions: Six Stories Retold Based on Talmud and Midrash
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Bib­li­cal Seduc­tions: Six Sto­ries Retold Based on Tal­mud and Midrash
Sandra E. Rapoport
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Truths Desired by God: An Excur­sion into the Week­ly Haftarah
Meir Tamari
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The Zohar: Pritzk­er Edi­tion, Vol­ume Five
Daniel Matt, trans. and commentary
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