LibGuides: Jewish Studies: Sacred Texts & Major Commentaries

Commentaries

Dead Sea Scrolls

Biblia Qumranica Dead Sea scrolls. Selections BM487 .A1 2005

The complete Dead Sea scrolls in English / [translated and edited with an introduction by] Geza Vermes. BM487 .A3 V4 2004

Major Commentaries

Ba·hya ben Joseph ibn Pa·kuda, 11th cent. The duties of the heart BJ1287 .B23 H52 1996

Judah, ha-Levi, 12th cent. The Kuzari: in defense of the despised faith BM550 .J8 1998

Luzzatto, Moshe ·Hayyim, 1707-1747. The path of the just. BJ1287 .L83 M3313 1996

Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204. Mishneh Torah. BM520.84 .A2 1995

Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204. The guide of the perplexed. BM545 .D3413 1995

Nahmanides, ca. 1195-ca. 1270. The Holy letter (Igeret ha-·kodesh) : a study in Jewish sexual morality / translated and with an introduction by Seymour J. Cohen. BM720.S4 I3313 1993

Rashi, 1040-1105. Perush Rashi ‘al ha-Torah. English and Hebrew 1996

The Torah with Rashi's commentary translated, annonated, and elucidated / by Yisrael Isser Zvi Herczeg. BS1225 .R32613 1997

Sacred Works

Bible

TANAKH: A new translation of the Holy Scriptures according to the Traditional Hebrew Text. ENGLISH ONLY

The Soncino Chumash; the five books of Moses with Haphtaroth; Hebrew text and English translation with an exposition based on the classical Jewish commentaries. BS1222 .C6 ENGLISH & HEBREW TEXT

The Five Megillot (Scrolls) Recited on:

Song of Songs Passover

Ruth Shavuot (Pentecost)

Lamentations Ninth of Av (Destruction of Temple in Jerusalem)

Ecclesiastes Sukkot (Tabernacles)

Esther Purim

All are generally included in print versions of the Jewish Bible.

Talmud

Hebrew-English edition of the Babylonian Talmud / translated into English, with notes, glossary and indices by Maurice Simon; under the editorship of I. Epstein.

BM499.5 .E5 1984

The Talmud = [Talmud Bavli]: the Steinsaltz edition / commentary by Adin Steinsaltz. BM499.5 .E4 1989

The Talmud of the Land of Israel [Jerusalem Talmud] / edited by Jacob Neusner BM506 .N63 N45 1996

Prayer Books (Siddur)

Book of prayer [Traditional Sephardic] English & Hebrew. According to the custom of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews. BM674.27 .P6 1947

[Sha‘are tefilah] = Gates of prayer: the new Union prayerbook [Reform] (Hebrew & English): weekdays, Sabbaths, and festivals, services and prayers for synagogue and home [Chaim Stern, editor].Union Prayer book BM674.34 .C46 1975

Daily prayer book = Ha-Siddur ha-Shalem [Traditional Ashkanizi] (English & Hebrew) / translated and annotated with an introduction by Philip Birnbaum. BM674.243 .B57 1997

Haggadah

The Passover Haggadah / edited and translated by Philip Birnbaum. BM674.643 .B57 1996

Kabbalah (Mysticism)

The Zohar [English & Aramaic]: by Rav Shimon bar Yochai: from the book of Avraham: with the Sulam commentary by Rav Yehuda Ashlag.

BM525 .A52 B46 2003 (23 v.)

The Zohar / English only translation and commentary by Daniel C. Matt.

Pritzker ed. BM525 .A52 M37 2003