Master Bible scholar and teacher Marc Brettler argues that today’s contemporary readers can only understand the ancient Hebrew Scripture by knowing more about the culture that produced it. And so Brettler unpacks the literary conventions, ideological assumptions, and historical conditions that inform the biblical text and demonstrates how modern critical scholarship and archaeological discoveries shed […]
Listen to author Marc Brettler, on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross, ‘How to Read the Bible’ Through History.
Read review in Jbooks.com, Taken Out of Context.
“The moment we ask about the direction to which a text points, we have begun to read it philosophically.” Mosaic discusses Kenneth Seeskin’s work.
Save 40% with coupon code 6AS23. August 2023 Judaism and Its Bible explores the profoundly deep and complex relationship between Jews, Judaism, and the Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew Bible has been ubiquitous in Jewish life and thought: Jews read it, interpret it, and debate it. They translate the Bible even as they deem those translations […]
August 2023 The Jewish Publication Society’s highly acclaimed Bible Commentary series provides the Hebrew text of the Bible, the JPS English translation, and a line-by-line commentary. This volume presents commentary on Psalms 120–150, based on the most recent research on the language of the Bible, its literary forms, and the historical context that may have […]
Rabbi Barry L. Schwartz, DirectorThe Jewish Publication Society2100 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103www.jps.org 215-832-0607April, 2020 Nisan,5780 Concerning JPS and the Global Impact Bible In the summer of 2017 JPS was approached by representatives of the Museum of the Bible to participate in a Jewish edition of their forthcoming Global Impact Bible and who requested a […]
Jewish Bible Translations is the first book-length history and analysis of Jewish Bible translations from the third century BCE to our day. As such, it is an overdue corrective of an important story that has been regularly omitted or downgraded in other histories of Bible translation. Examining a wide range of translations over twenty-four centuries, […]
How was this project born, and what was it like to live with it for the past 17 years? The project got started more than a year before it was “born.” My wife (a physical therapist and physical anthropologist) got a National Science Foundation grant to spend July 2000 at the University of Alabama and […]
The biblical commentaries known as Miqra’ot Gedolot have inspired and educated generations of Hebrew readers. Now, with the five volumes of the acclaimed English edition of Miqra’ot Gedolot—Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy—the voices of Rashi, Ibn Ezra, Nachmanides, Rashbam, Abarbanel, Kimhi, and other medieval Bible commentators come alive, speaking in a contemporary English translation annotated […]
