Q. What inspired you to write about chanting the Hebrew Bible? A. I’ve been chanting Torah since I was a teenager. I thought I understood the system of Torah chant until about 25 years ago, when a friend from my synagogue introduced me to the teachings of Michael Pearlman, an Israeli educator who had devised […]
Q. How did these two volumes of essays come to be? What led to you deciding to publish them? A. The essays that comprise The Heart of Torah began as a series of emails to an ever-growing list of subscribers. From the beginning, what was so striking to me was the sheer diversity of who […]
The biblical commentaries known as Miqra’ot Gedolot have inspired and educated generations of Hebrew readers. With this edition—the fifth and final volume of the acclaimed English edition of Miqra’ot Gedolot—those of Rashi, Ibn Ezra, Nachmanides, Rashbam, Abarbanel, Kimhi, and other medieval Bible commentators come alive once more, speaking in a contemporary English translation annotated and […]
The books of the Hebrew Bible were written thousands of years ago in a very different world from ours. Already in the Middle Ages, respected Jewish thinkers like Moses Maimonides and Abraham ibn Ezra realized that the more we know about the ancient Near East in biblical times, the better we understand the nuances of […]
Read article about new biblical scholarship in Publisher’s Weekly Justice for All: How the Jewish Bible Revolutionized Ethics by Jeremiah Unterman (Jewish Publication Society, Mar. 2017) demonstrates that the Jewish Bible, by radically changing the course of ethical thought, came to exercise enormous cultural influence.”
On Joseph: Portraits through the Ages “Alan Levenson’s book, Joseph: Portraits through the Ages is an excellent companion to the Joseph story, substituting admirably for the college class you likely never had…Levenson’s interpretation draws from traditional and modern Jewish commentary, from literature…and, unusually for a Jewish book, occasionally from Christian sources. Levenson also explains passages […]
“The volumes have been given a layout and binding that is simply a delight. It is printed with a clear script. The layout of the volume is simple, allows quick reference, and invites the reader to join the century-long dialogue on the texts of Torah.” Read review in the Bulletin of Biblical Research.
Read review by the Jewish Book Council.
The JPS audio-Bible is currently unavailable on our website for weekly listening, but may be purchased through one of our cooperating vendors. About the Audio Bible The JPS TANAKH: The Jewish Bible, audio version is a recorded version of the JPS TANAKH, the most widely read English translation of the Hebrew (the Jewish) Bible. Produced […]
