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Reading Scripture with the Rabbis

The Five Books of Moses [Paperback]

by Jacob Neusner

Author
Jacob Neusner
Book Format
Paperback
Publisher
University Press of America
Published
November 2006

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This anthology illustrates how Judaism's classical rabbis of the first seven centuries of the Common Era read the ancient Israelite scriptures. It presents, in particular, a selection of writings that show what happens to the five books of Moses at the hands of the Rabbinical sages of the formative age of Judaism. Each Midrash-compilation takes up a book of Scripture and systematically expounds the message that the Rabbis derive from that particular book. No statement by the rabbis of the meaning of a biblical book emerges as a mere paraphrase of the plain sense of Scripture itself. The compiler introduces the Rabbinic reading of the Five books of Moses, "Genesis" through Genesis Rabbah, "Exodus" through Mekhilta attributed to R. Ishmael, "Leviticus" through Leviticus Rabbah, "Numbers" through SifrZ to Numbers, and "Deuteronomy" through SifrZ to Deuteronomy.