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Children’s Genesis – The Book with Seventy Faces: A Guide for the Family Esther Takac; Anna Pignataro, illus.
Children’s Round and Round the Jewish Year: Volume 4 Iyar-Av Tzipora Rosenberg; Ruth Beifus, illus.
Nonfiction The Invention of Jewish Identity: Bible, Philosophy, and the Art of Translation Aaron H. Hughes
Nonfiction The Serpent’s Skin: Creation, Knowledge, and Intimacy in the Book of Genesis Marc Klein
Nonfiction Becoming the People of the Talmud: Oral Torah as Written Tradition in Medieval Jewish Cultures Talya Fishman
Nonfiction The Modern Men’s Torah Commentary: New Insights from Jewish Men on the 54 Weekly Torah Portions Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin, ed.
Nonfiction Heavenly Torah as Refracted Through the Generations Abraham Joshua Heschel; Gordon Tucker and Leonard Levin, eds. and trans.
Nonfiction David and Solomon: In Search of the Bible’s Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western Tradition Israel Finkelstein, Neil Asher Silberman