The Jewish Bible: A JPS Guide

Contributors

The Jewish Bible Contributors Marc Zvi Brettler, Dora Golding Professor of Biblical Studies, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts. Joyce Eisenberg, author and editor of travel books and kosher cookbooks; coauthor of Dictionary of Jewish Words. Michael Fishbane, Nathan Cummings Professor of Jewish Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. Michael V. Fox, Hills-Bascom Professor of Hebrew, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. Frederick Greenspahn, Gimelstob Eminent Scholar in Judaica, Coordinator of Jewish Studies, and Director of Religious Studies, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida. Leonard Greenspoon, Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Languages and of Theology, and Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska. Jill Hammer, Director of Spiritual Education at the Academy of Jewish Religion; Director of Tel Shemesh, a website and community celebrating and creating Jewish traditions related to the earth. Stuart Kelman, now retired, is the founding rabbi of Congregation Netivot Shalom, Berkeley, California, and is a trained sofer. Adriane Leveen, Assistant Professor of Bible, Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles, California. David Mandel, Founder of Computronic Corporation, an Israeli software development company that specializes in biblical software. Lionel Moses, Rabbi of Shaare Zion Congregation in Montreal, Canada; Secretary of the Joint Beth Din of the Conservative Movement. Shalom Paul, Past Professor of Bible, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York, New York; Professor Emeritus of Bible and Past Chair of Bible, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. 280 Adele Reinhartz, Professor of Classics and Religious Studies, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Nahum M. Sarna, former Dora Golding Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts. Cullen Schippe, Vice President, Religious Education, Pflaum Publishing Group; former Vice President of Macmillan/McGraw-Hill. Benjamin Edidin Scolnic, Rabbi of Temple Beth Sholom, Hamden, Connecticut; Biblical Consultant, the North Sinai Archaeological Expedition; Adjunct Professor of Bible, Southern Connecticut State University. Ellen Scolnic, writer on topics of Jewish interest; coauthor of Dictionary of Jewish Words. David E. S. Stein, revising editor of The Contemporary Torah: A Gender-Sensitive Adaptation of the JPS Translation; general editor and revising translator for The Torah: A Modern Commentary, rev. ed.; project editor for the JPS Hebrew-English Tanakh (1999). Chuck Steton, Chairman of the Board and Managing Director, Private Equity Investments, Inc., New York, New York. Jeffrey H. Tigay, A. M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literature, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Barry Dov Walfish, Judaica Specialist at the University of Toronto Libraries, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Andrea Weiss, Assistant Professor of Bible, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, New York, NY. Ziony Zevit, Distinguished Professor of Biblical Literature and Northwest Semitic Languages and Literatures, American Jewish University, Los Angeles, California. 281 Contributors 282 ...