Mark Jay Mirsky
By Mark Jay Mirsky
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Culture How Jewish Is the New ‘Jewish Study Bible’?
The Jewish Study Bible By Adele Berlin, Marc Zvi Brettler (Editors) and Michael Fishbane (Consulting Editor) Oxford University Press, 2,181 pages, $40. * * *| ‘The Jewish Study Bible,” a hefty, 2,181-page tome published this year, packages a previously published translation of the Hebrew Bible together with extensive marginal commentary and essays by modern scholars….
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News A Collection of Ancient Novels Plumbs Antiquity and Proselytizes for Piety
Ancient Jewish Novels: An Anthology Edited and Translated by Lawrence M. Wills Oxford University Press, 320 pages, $24.95. * * *| In “Joseph and Aseneth,” a “purer than thou” Joseph, the biblical patriarch and newly appointed regent of Egypt, meets the “holier than thou” Aseneth, virginal daughter of Pharaoh’s chief counselor. Aseneth — “more beautiful…
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