Genesis: Introduction and Commentary
Overview
The biblical commentaries known as Miqra’ot Gedolot have inspired and educated generations of Hebrew readers. With the publication of this edition—the final volume of the acclaimed JPS English edition of Miqra’ot Gedolot—the voices of Rashi, Ibn Ezra, Nachmanides, Rashbam, Abarbanel, Kimhi, and other medieval Bible commentators come alive once more, speaking in a contemporary English translation annotated for lay readers. Each page in The Commentators’ Bible: Genesis: The Rubin JPS Miqra’ot Gedolot contains several verses from the book of Genesis, surrounded by both the 1917 and the 1985 JPS translations and by new contemporary English translations of the major commentators. The book also includes a glossary of terms, a list of names used in the text, notes on source texts, a special topics list, and resources for further study. This large-format volume is beautifully designed for easy navigation among the many elements on each page, including explanatory notes and selected additional comments from the works of Bekhor Shor, Sforno, Gersonides, and Hizkuni, among others.
Top Highlights
“Hinting to Abraham that those kingdoms would fall down to Gehenna.” (Page 138)
“If you insist that our verse is saying heaven and earth were created first, you would have to assume that there is a missing word, ‘At the beginning of everything, God created heaven and earth.’” (Page 4)
“her name is found in manuals for summoning demons. The text alludes tersely to secrets of this kind” (Page 55)
“Here too the text must be understood as if bara were a gerund, not a past tense: ‘At the beginning of God’s creating.” (Page 4)
“‘the beginning of His course’ (Prov. 8:22), and for the sake of Israel, which is called ‘the first fruits of His harvest’ (Jer. 2:3). But when you mean to interpret the text straightforwardly, interpret it this way: ‘At the beginning of the creation of heaven and earth, the earth was unformed and void and dark. God said, ‘Let there be light.’ ’ The text is not saying that heaven and earth were created first. If it were, it would have to say barishonah, which is how you say ‘in the beginning’ (OJPS) in Biblical Hebrew; bereshit, the word that is actually used, only occurs in construct with the following word, e.g., ‘at the beginning of the reign of’ So-and-So.” (Pages 3–4)
- Title: Genesis: Introduction and Commentary
- Author: Michael Carasik
- Series: The Commentators’ Bible
- Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
- Print Publication Date: 2018
- Logos Release Date: 2018
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible. O.T. Genesis › Commentaries
- ISBNs: 9780827609426, 0827609426
- Resource ID: LLS:CMTBBLE01GE
- Resource Type: Bible Commentary
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:26:23Z