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Back to the Sources

by · 1984

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Essays analyze the major traditional texts of Judaism from literary, historical, philosophical & religious points of view.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

On reading Jewish texts/ Barry W. Holtz

Biblical narrative/ Joel Rosenberg

Biblical law/ Edward L. Greenstein

Biblical poetry/ Murray H. Lichtenstein

Talmud/ Robert Goldenberg

Midrash/ Barry W. Holtz

Medieval Bible commentaries/ Edward L. Greenstein

Medieval Jewish philosophy/ Norbert M. Samuelson

Kabbalistic texts/ Lawrence Fine

Teachings of the Hasidic masters/ Arthur Green

Prayer and the prayerbook/ Alan Mintz

Index

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