Exodus: Introduction and Commentary

by Michael Carasik

Publisher:

Jewish Publication Society

, 2005

Overview

First published 500 years ago as the “Rabbinic Bible,” the biblical commentaries known as the Miqra’ot Gedolot have inspired and educated generations of Hebrew readers. With this edition, the voices of Rashi, Ibn Ezra, Nachmanides, Rashbam, and other medieval commentators come alive once more, speaking in a contemporary English translation annotated and explicated for lay readers. Each page of The Commentators’ Bible contains several Hebrew verses from the book of Exodus, surrounded by both the 1917 and 1985 JPS translations and new English translations of the major commentators. This large-format volume is beautifully designed for ease of navigation among the many elements on each page, including explanatory notes and selected additional comments from the works of Bekhor Shor, Hizkuni, Abarbanel, Sforno, Gersonides, and others. JPS is pleased to make available for group study and teaching purposes individual parshiyot (weekly Torah readings) from The Commentators’ Bible. This resource contains the introduction and commentary.

Contents

Top Highlights

“What the text is saying is that there never had been so many, or ever would be again, in all the land of Egypt” (Page 68)

“Why did God not carve the second set of tablets Himself, to make them exactly equivalent to the first set” (Page 301)

“Not ‘visiting’ it, and certainly not (as some think) ‘reckoning’ it, but ‘remembering’ it.” (Page 157)

“practice. Similarly, ‘This is the day that the Lord has made me the chief cornerstone—” (Page 95)

“In short, just as the Egyptians had to dig for drinking water, so did the Hebrews.” (Page 50)

Product Details

• Title: Exodus: Introduction and Commentary
• Author: Michael Carasik
• Edition: First edition
• Series: The Commentators’ Bible
• Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
• Print Publication Date: 2005
• Logos Release Date: 2017
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Bible. O.T. Exodus › Commentaries
• ISBNs: 0827608128, 9780827608122
• Resource ID: LLS:CMTBBLE02EX
• Resource Type: Bible Commentary
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-08-30T23:47:51Z

About Michael Carasik

Michael Carasik is the compiler and translator of the Rubin JPS Miqra’ot Gedolot Commentators’ Bible series and the author of Theologies of the Mind in Biblical Israel.