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The JPS Torah Commentary: Genesis DOWNLOADABLE

Author: Sarna, Nahum M.
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
Publication Date: 1989
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Balancing reverence for the text with rigorous scholarship, Sarna’s commentary is an illuminating and exhaustive treatment of Genesis. Included with the line-by-line analysis are thirty excursuses, and helpful maps. The commentary also features expository sections, including “Eden and the Expulsion: The Human Condition,” “The Depravity of Canaan,” “God’s Election of Abraham,” “Isaac, Father of Two Nations,” “Joseph’s Liberation and Rise to Power,” and many others. Nahum M. Sarna (1923-2005), was born in London and received his training in rabbinics at Jews College, London, and his B.A. and M.A. from the University College London. After living in Israel for two years, he settled in the United States in 1951, and received his Ph.D. in biblical studies and Semitic languages from Dropsie College, Philadelphia.

This resources is available as part of the JPS Tanakh Commentary Collection (9 volumes).

The JPS Torah Commentary: Genesis

  • Nahum M. Sarna
  • 414 pages | 1989

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About the Jewish Publication Society

The Jewish Publication Society of America was founded in Philadelphia in 1888 to provide the children of Jewish immigrants to America with books about their heritage in the language of the New World. As the oldest publisher of Jewish titles in the English language, the mission of JPS is to enhance Jewish culture by promoting the dissemination of religious and secular works of exceptional quality, in the United States and abroad, to all individuals and institutions interested in past and contemporary Jewish life.

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