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A History of German Jewish Bible Translation

Abigail Gillman

University of Chicago Press, 2018

Between 1780 and 1937, Jews in Germany produced numerous new translations of the Hebrew Bible into German. Intended for Jews who were trilingual, reading Yiddish, Hebrew, and German, they were meant less for religious use than to promote educational and cultural goals. Not only did translations give Jews vernacular access to their scripture without Christian intervention, but they also helped showcase the Hebrew Bible as a work of literature and the foundational text of modern Jewish identity.

This book is the first in English to offer a close analysis of German Jewish translations as part of a larger cultural project. Looking at four distinct waves of translations, Abigail Gillman juxtaposes translations within each that sought to achieve similar goals through differing means. As she details the history of successive translations, we gain new insight into the opportunities and problems the Bible posed for different generations and gain a new perspective on modern German Jewish history.
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A Torah Commentary for Our Times

Volume 2: Exodus and Leviticus

Rabbi Harvey J. Fields

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 1991

A helpful approach to the weekly parashah, juxtaposing the insights of ancient, medieval, and modern commentators (including the author). Perfect for both beginning Torah students and scholars seeking new angles on the text. The volumes are available individually or as a three-volume set, ideal for a bar or bat mitzvah or confirmation gift.

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A Torah Commentary for Our Times

Volume 3: Numbers and Deuteronomy

Rabbi Harvey J. Fields

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 1993

A helpful approach to the weekly parashah, juxtaposing the insights of ancient, medieval, and modern commentators (including the author). Perfect for both beginning Torah students and scholars seeking new angles on the text. The volumes are available individually or as a three-volume set, ideal for a bar or bat mitzvah or confirmation gift.

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A Torah Commentary for Our Times

Volume I: Genesis

Rabbi Harvey J. Fields

Central Conference of American Rabbis, 1990

A helpful approach to the weekly parashah, juxtaposing the insights of ancient, medieval, and modern commentators (including the author). Perfect for both beginning Torah students and scholars seeking new angles on the text. The volumes are available individually or as a three-volume set, ideal for a bar or bat mitzvah or confirmation gift.

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Adam and Eve in the Armenian Tradition, Fifth through Seventeenth Centuries

Michael E. Stone

SBL Press, 2013

The Adam and Eve stories are a foundational myth in the Jewish and Christian worlds, and the way they were recounted reveals a great deal about those doing the retelling. How did the Armenians retell these stories? What values do these retellings express about men and women, their life in the world, sin and redemption? Presented here are twelve hundred years of Armenian telling of the Genesis 1–3 stories in an unparalleled collection of all significant narratives of Adam and Eve in Armenian literature—prose and poetry, homilies and commentaries, calendary and mathematical texts—from its inception in the fifth century to the seventeenth century. This seminal resource contributes to the lively current discussion of how biblical and apocryphal traditions were retold, embroidered, and transformed into the lenses through which the Bible itself was read.
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Aseneth of Egypt

The Composition of a Jewish Narrative

Patricia D. Ahearne-Kroll

SBL Press, 2020

An exploration of Aseneth's beginnings

In Aseneth of Egypt: The Composition of a Jewish Narrative, Patricia D. Ahearne-Kroll challenges reliance on reconstructed texts in previous scholarship on the book of Joseph and Aseneth. After outlining the problems with previous prototypes of the Hellenistic narrative, she proposes a way to talk about the story in its initial setting without ignoring the manuscript evidence. Her thorough analysis of the evidence reveals how Joseph and Aseneth reflects the literary impulse of Greek-speaking Jewish writers to redescribe their identity in Egypt and Judean connections to the land of Egypt, while incorporating Ptolemaic strategies of legitimation of power. In the end, Ahearne-Kroll concludes that the base storyline preserved in all the copies of this story demonstrates that it was written for Jewish communities living in Hellenistic Egypt.

Features:

  • A focus on Hellenistic stories of heroic ancestors
  • A discussion of the possible lives of Jews in Hellenistic Egypt drawn from the narrative of Aseneth
  • An examination of the complexities involved in dating the composition of literary texts
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