Jewish Studies

The Jewish Study Bible is a landmark, one-volume resource tailored especially for the needs of students of the Hebrew Bible. The Jewish Study Bible combines the entire Hebrew Bible - in the celebrated Jewish Publication Society TANAKH Translation - with explanatory notes, introductory materials and essays by leading biblical scholars on virtually every aspect of the text.

The JPS Hebrew-English TANAKH features the oldest-known complete Hebrew version of the Holy Scriptures, side by side with JPS's English translation.

The Tanakh is the chief sacred text within Judaism. It consists of three parts: the Law (Torah), Prophets (Nevi’im), and the Writings (Ketuvim). This link provides access to the Tanakh in Hebrew with a parallel English translation (according to the Masoretic text and the Jewish Publication Society 1917 edition). Includes MP3 files of each chapter being read in Hebrew.

The five books of Moses : Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy : a new translation with introductions, commentary, and notes

Edition of the Torah illustrated with Jewish art and iconography from around the world.

In this volume, David C. Kraemer offers students of Judaism a sophisticated and accessible introduction to one of the religion's most important texts. Here, he brings together his expertise as a scholar of the Talmud and rabbinic Judaism with the lessons of his experience as director of one of the largest collections of rare Judaica in the world.

Complete 17 volumes of the Jerusalem Talmud. The original text of the Jerusalem Talmud is vocalized. This edition also presents the first English scholarly translation and commentary of the Jerusalem Talmud. All technical terms and syllogisms are explained.

This site provide access to Michael Rodkinson’s 1918 browsable translation of the Babylonian Talmud. An 18-volume translation of the Babylonian Talmud can also be found in the Scott Library under call number BM 499.5 E5 1961.

This book explores the historical contexts in which the Babylonian Talmud was formed in an effort to determine whether it was the result of oral transmission. Scholars have posited that the rulings and stories we find in the Talmud were passed on from one generation to the next, each generation adding their opinions and interpretations of a given subject. Yet, such an oral formation process is unheard of in late antiquity.

This volume introduces students of rabbinic literature to the range of historical and interpretative questions surrounding the rabbinic texts of late antiquity.

Midrash can refer to a method of scriptural interpretation used in Talmudic literature, or to a separate body of rabbinic commentaries on the Tanakh. Such commentaries are grouped into those that treat legal (halakha) and non-legal (Aggadic) topics. This link provides access to the sampling of post-Talmudic Midrashic literature contained in Samuel Rapaport’s 1907 English translation Tales and Maxims from the Midrash.