Stringing the Pearls: How to Read the Weekly Torah Portion

Works Cited

227 Works Cited Throughout these pages I have referred to several books that in various ways open up the world of the Bible. They have been crucial resources for me and they will be no less valuable to you. In addition to them, I want to note a few more that are, if not required reading, then highly recommended for anyone who wants a basic presentation of the “what,” the “where,” the “when,” and the “how” of the remarkable 39-volume anthology that is the TANAKH. The following books are not commentaries or readings of the weekly portions but excellent treatments of key aspects of the Humash and the TANAKH. Alter, Robert. The Art of Biblical Narrative. New York: Basic Books, 1981. ———. The Five Books of Moses. New York and London: W. W. Norton & Co., 2004. Avnon, Dan. Martin Buber: The Hidden Dialogue. London, Boulder, New York, and Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998. Barton, John. Reading the Old Testament. Rev. and enlarged ed. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 1996. Bergen, Wesley J. Reading Ritual: Leviticus in Postmodern Culture. London and New York: T & T Clark International, 2005. Berlin, Adele. “Reading Biblical Poetry.” In Adele Berlin and Marc Zvi Brettler, eds., The Jewish Study Bible (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), 2097–2104. Berlin, Adele, and Marc Zvi Brettler, eds. The Jewish Study Bible. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Buber, Martin. “The Man of Today and the Jewish Bible.” In Israel and the World: Essays in a Time of Crisis. New York: Schocken Books, 1963. 228 WORKS CITED ———. “Two Foci of the Jewish Soul.” In Israel and the World: Essays in a Time of Crisis. New York: Schocken Books, 1963. Buber, Martin, and Franz Rosenzweig. Scripture and Translation. Trans. Lawrence Rosenwald with Everett Fox. Bloomington and Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, 1994. Carasik, Michael, ed. The Commentators’ Bible: The JPS Miqra’ot Gedolot—Exodus. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 2005. Damrosch, David. The Narrative Covenant: Transformations of Genre in the Growth of Biblical Literature. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1987. [de Leon, Moses?]. The Zohar: Pritzker Edition. Vols. 1 and 2. Trans. Daniel C. Matt. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. Fish, Stanley. Is There a Text in This Class? The Authority of Interpretive Communities. Cambridge Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1980. Fox, Everett. The Five Books of Moses. New York: Schocken Books, 1995. ———. Now These Are the Names: A New English Rendition of the Book of Exodus. New York: Schocken Books, 1986. Frankel, Ellen. The Five Books of Miriam: A Woman’s Commentary on the Torah. New York: G. P. Putnam’s & Sons, 1996. Friedman, Richard Elliot. The Bible with Sources Revealed: A New View into the Five Books of Moses. New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 2003. ———. Commentary on the Torah with a New English Translation. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2001. ———. Who Wrote the Bible? 2nd ed. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco , 1996. Geller, Stephen A. “The Religion of the Bible.” In The Jewish Study Bible, ed. Adele Berlin and Marc Zvi Brettler. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Green, Arthur. The Language of Truth: The Torah Commentary of the Sefat Emet Rabbi Yehudah Leib Alter of Ger. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 1998. 229 WORKS CITED Greenstein, Edward L. “Biblical Law.” In Back to the Sources: Reading the Classic Jewish Texts, ed. Barry W. Holtz. New York: Summit Books, 1984. ———. “Medieval Bible Commentaries.” In Back to the Sources: Reading the Classic Jewish Texts, ed. Barry W. Holtz. New York: Summit Books, 1984. Hallo, William W. “Deuteronomy and Ancient Near Eastern Literature .” In The Torah: A Modern Commentary, ed. W. Gunther Plaut and David E. S. Stein, rev. ed. New York: Union for Reform Judaism, 2005. ———. “Numbers and Ancient Near Eastern Literature.” In The Torah: A Modern Commentary, ed. W. Gunther Plaut and David E. S. Stein, rev. ed. New York: Union for Reform Judaism, 2005. Heschel, Abraham Joshua. Heavenly Torah as Refracted Through the Generations . Trans. Gordon Tucker. New York and London: Continuum, 2005. Jabès, Edmond. The Book of Questions, vol. 1. Trans. Rosmarie Waldrop . Middletown, Conn: Wesleyan University Press, 1976. Jacobson, Joshua R. Chanting the Hebrew Bible: The Art of Cantillation. Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society, 2002. Josipovici, Gabriel. The Book of God: A Response to the Bible. New Haven, Conn., and London: Yale University Press, 1988. Kafka, Franz. Letter to His Father. New York: Schocken Books, 1953. Kass, Leon. The Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis. New York...