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Torah & Text

Cover of In Scripture: The First Stories of Jewish Sexual Identities
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In Scrip­ture: The First Sto­ries of Jew­ish Sex­u­al Identities
Lori Hope Lefkovitz
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Torah Queeries: Week­ly Com­men­taries on the Hebrew Bible
Gregg Drinkwater, Joshua Lesser and David Shneer, eds.
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Queer­ing the Text: Bib­li­cal, Medieval, and Mod­ern Jew­ish Stories
Andrew Ramer
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Judaism and Homo­sex­u­al­i­ty: An Authen­tic Ortho­dox View
Chaim Rapoport
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Chil­dren’s
JPS Illus­trat­ed Chil­dren’s Bible
Ellen Frankel; Avi Katz, illus.
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Tanya, the Mas­ter­piece of Hasidic Wis­dom: Selec­tions Anno­tat­ed and Explained
Rabbi Rami Shapiro
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Visu­al Arts
The Book of Genesis
Robert Crumb; Robert Alter, trans.
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A Heart Afire: Sto­ries and Teach­ing of the Ear­ly Hasidic Masters
Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Netanel Miles- Yepez; Arthur Green, fwd.
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Beads for the Mes­si­ah’s Bride: Poems on Leviticus
Yakov Azriel
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The Ten Com­mand­ments: How Our Most Ancient Moral Text Can Renew Mod­ern Life
David Hazony
Cover of Translation and Survival: The Greek Bible of the Ancient Jewish Diaspora
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Trans­la­tion and Sur­vival: The Greek Bible of the Ancient Jew­ish Diaspora
Tessa Rajak
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Jew­ish Choic­es, Jew­ish Voic­es: Sex and Intimacy
Elliot N. Dorff and Danya Ruttenberg, eds.
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Jew­ish Text
A Lit­er­ary Bible: An Orig­i­nal Translation
David Rosen­berg
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Begin­nings: Reflec­tions on the Bible’s Intrigu­ing ​“Firsts”
Meir Shalev; Stuart Schoffman, trans.
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Vision & Val­or: An Illus­trat­ed His­to­ry Of The Talmud
Rabbi Berel Wein
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The Wis­dom Books: Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes
Robert Alter
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