The Commentators' Bible (5 vols.)

by Michael Carasik

Publisher:

Jewish Publication Society

, 2005–2018

Overview

First published 500 years ago as the “Rabbinic Bible,” the biblical commentaries known as Miqra’ot Gedolot have inspired and educated generations of Hebrew readers. With these new editions, the voices of Rashi, Ibn Ezra, Nachmanides, Rashbam, and other medieval Bible commentators come alive once more, speaking in a contemporary English translation annotated and explicated for lay readers.

Key Features

• Provides the English edition of Miqra’ot Gedolot
• Revives the biblical commentary of key medieval Jewish theologians
• Includes fresh contemporary translations

Product Details

• Title: The Commentators' Bible Series
• Author: Michael Carasik
• Series: The Commentators' Bible
• Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
• Volumes: 5
• Pages: 1,782
• Resource Type: Commentaries
• Topic: Pentateuch

About Michael Carasik

Michael Carasik teaches a 4-semester sequence of Biblical Hebrew at the University of Pennsylvania. He also teaches at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and has taught in the past at Boston's Hebrew College, Northeastern University, the University of Delaware, and Gratz College. A native of Chicago, he earned his bachelor's degree from New College in Sarasota, Florida; his Master's in Jewish Studies from Spertus College of Judaica in Chicago; and his Ph.D. in Bible and the Ancient Near East from Brandeis University. He is the author of many scholarly articles and reviews, and of two books: Theologies of the Mind in Biblical Israel and The Bible's Many Voices.