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Torah & Text

Essay

It’s No Acci­dent the Final Com­mand­ment Is to Write

Beth Kissileff is the author of Read­ing Gen­e­sis and a new nov­el, Ques­tion­ing Return. She is guest blog­ging for the Jew­ish Book Coun­cil all week as part of the…
Beth Kissileff
October 23, 2016
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Fic­tion
The Secret Book of Kings
Yochi Brandes; Yardenne Greenspan, trans.
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Non­fic­tion
The JPS Bible Com­men­tary: Song of Songs
Michael Fishbane
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Non­fic­tion
Mai­monides — Between Phi­los­o­phy and Halakhah
Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik; Lawrence J. Kaplan, ed.
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Chil­dren’s
Enjoy­ing the Book of Ruth: The Bible in Rhyme
Marcia Goldlist
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Jew­ish Text
The Koren Pirkei Avot
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Non­fic­tion
Six Mem­os From the Last Millennium
Joseph Ski­bell
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Non­fic­tion
Aphrodite and the Rabbis
Bur­ton L. Visotzky
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Non­fic­tion
The Peo­ple and the Books
Adam Kirsch
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Visu­al Arts
The 613
Archie Rand
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Non­fic­tion
Sage Advice: Pirkei Avot, with Trans­la­tion and Commentary
Irv­ing Greenberg
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Non­fic­tion
Torah and West­ern Thought: Intel­lec­tu­al Por­traits of Ortho­doxy and Modernity
Rabbi Dr. Meir Y. Soloveichik. Dr. Stuart W. Halpern, and Rabbi Shlomo Zuckier, eds.
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Non­fic­tion
Talks on the Parasha
Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz; Yisrael Malkiel, ed.
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Non­fic­tion
The Great Prin­ci­ple of the Torah
Rabbi Jack Bieler
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Non­fic­tion
The Secret Faith of Maestre Hon­o­ra­tus: Pro­fayt Duran and Jew­ish Iden­ti­ty in Late Medieval Iberia
Maud Kozodoy
Recommended Reading

Chanan Tigay’s Top 5 Books to Re-Read

With the release of The Lost Book of Moses: The Search for the World’s Old­est Bible from Harper­Collins tomor­row, author Chanan Tigay is guest blog­ging here all week as part…
Chanan Tigay
April 11, 2016
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