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Torah & Text

Cover of Very Near to You: Human Readings of the Torah
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Very Near to You: Human Read­ings of the Torah
Avra­ham Burg
Cover of Rav Hisda's Daughter: A Novel of Love, the Talmud, and Sorcery
Fic­tion
Rav His­da’s Daugh­ter: A Nov­el of Love, the Tal­mud, and Sorcery
Mag­gie Anton
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Chil­dren’s
A Taste of Torah: An Intro­duc­tion to Thir­teen Chal­leng­ing Bible Stories
Rabbi Ronald H. Isaacs
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Under­stand­ing the Hebrew Bible: A Read­er’s Guide
Elliot Rabin
Cover of Wrestling Jacob: Deception, Identity and Freudian Slips in Genesis
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Wrestling Jacob: Decep­tion, Iden­ti­ty and Freudi­an Slips in Genesis
Shmuel Klitsner
Cover of The Family Book of Midrash: Fifty-Two Jewish Stories From the Sages
Chil­dren’s
The Fam­i­ly Book of Midrash: Fifty-Two Jew­ish Sto­ries From the Sages
Barbara Diamond Goldin
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The Wis­dom of Judaism: An Intro­duc­tion to the Val­ues of the Talmud
Dov Peretz Elkins
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Jesus in the Talmud
Peter Schäfer
Cover of Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible
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Scrib­al Cul­ture and the Mak­ing of the Hebrew Bible
Karel Van Der Toorn
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The Zohar: Pritzk­er Edi­tion, Vol­ume Six
Daniel C. Matt, trans. and commentary
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Chil­dren’s
The Chil­dren’s Illus­trat­ed Jew­ish Bible
Laaren Brown and Lenny Hort; Eric Thomas, illus.; Susan Reuben, ed.
Cover of Eternally Eve: Images of Eve in the Hebrew Bible, Midrash, and Modern Jewish Poetry
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Eter­nal­ly Eve: Images of Eve in the Hebrew Bible, Midrash, and Mod­ern Jew­ish Poetry
Anne Lapidus Lerner
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For the Love of God: The Bible as an Open Book
Ali­cia Ostriker
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Jew­ish Choic­es, Jew­ish Voic­es: Body
Elliot N. Dorff and Louis E. Newman, eds.
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Jew­ish Choic­es, Jew­ish Voic­es: Money
Elliot N. Dorff and Louis E. Newman, eds.
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Jew­ish Text
Hours of Devo­tion: Fan­ny Neu­da’s Book of Prayers for Jew­ish Women
Dinah Berland, ed.; M. Moritz Mayer, trans.
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