Description The biblical commentaries known as Miqra\'ot Gedolot have inspired and educated generations of Hebrew readers.
He is the compiler and translator of the JPS Miqra\'ot Gedolot Commentators\' Bible series and author of Theologies of the Mind in Biblical Israel and The Bible\'s Many Voices (JPS, 2014)..
About the Author Michael Carasik teaches biblical Hebrew at the University of Pennsylvania.
This large-format volume is beautifully designed for easy navigation among the many elements on each page, including explanatory notes and selected additional comments from the works of Bekhor Shor, Sforno, Gersonides, and Hizkuni, among others.
The book also includes a glossary of terms, a list of names used in the text, notes on source texts, a special topics list, and resources for further study.
Each page in The Commentators\' Bible: Genesis: The Rubin JPS Miqra\'ot Gedolot contains several verses from the book of Genesis, surrounded by both the 1917 and the 1985 JPS translations and by new contemporary English translations of the major commentators.
With the publication of this edition--the final volume of the acclaimed JPS English edition of Miqra\'ot Gedolot--the voices of Rashi, Ibn Ezra, Nachmanides, Rashbam, Abarbanel, Kimhi, and other medieval Bible commentators come alive once more, speaking in a contemporary English translation annotated for lay readers.
Description The biblical commentaries known as Miqra\'ot Gedolot have inspired and educated generations of Hebrew readers
