Back to the Sources: Reading the Classic Jewish TextsBarry W. Holtz [This is a guide to] the Bible and the many commentaries it gave rise to over a period spanning several thousand years ... [This guide to] the Bible, the Talmud, the midrashic literature, the commentaries, the legal codes, the mystical texts of the Kabbalah and of Hasidism, the philosophical works and the prayerbook ... has been designed for the contemporary reader who wishes to know what these books are and ... how to read them.-Back cover. |
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A Biblical Narrative | 31 |
Greenstein | 83 |
Biblical Poetry | 105 |
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