Sources and Studies The Institute for Jewish Bible Interpretation

Sources & Studies Series

An Annotated Scientific Edition of the Second Part of the Commentary of Rabbi Avraham Ibn Ezra, one of the greatest commentators of all generations, on the Book of Isaiah.

An annotated critical edition of Ibn Ezra's two commentaries on Megilat Esther.

This most important book of Ibn Ezra, The Foundation of Awe and the Secret of the Torah, devoted to the numeration, classification and explanation of the biblical commandments, is written in an extremely short and enigmatic style. In order to make it acce

This book deals with fundamental questions of Ibn Ezra’s methodology, polemical pressures and the quest for truth, criticism and conservatism, his attitude to history and science, and the history of supercommentaries to his interpretation.

Winner of the Rabbi Moshe Malka Prize for Torah Literature!! Shadal is regarded as the first of the modern Jewish commentators. The book sets out his outlook in terms of his exegetical and critical approach and his beliefs lying behind it.

This book surveys ideas about the arrangement of Biblical stories and laws, beginning with the Rabbis’ observation that “There is no ‘earlier or ‘later’ in the Torah” and the midrashic question “Why were these two chapters juxtaposed?,” and moving on t

The Rabbi Dr. Shmuel Belkin Prize of Yeshiva University, New York, 1995. This study analyses a Pentateuch incunabulum, with handwritten marginal notes from the 16th century, which provides accurate evidence of the text, and the layout of the Sections a

These volumes add a new dimension to the study of ancient versions of Aramaic dialectology and of the history of Bible exegesis. With the assistance of Rimon Kasher. From the series "Sources and Studies'', the Institute for the History of Jewish Bible

These volumes add a new dimension to the study of ancient versions of Aramaic dialectology and of the history of Bible exegesis. With the assistance of Rimon Kasher. From the series "Sources and Studies'', the Institute for the History of Jewish Bible

A critical edition with explanatory notes on both the standard and a newly-discovered com-mentary. Includes an accurate text of the two commentaries and extensive notes illuminating obscurities in Ibn Ezra's commentaries and evaluating his originality.<br