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Back to the Sources - Softcover

Holtz, Barry (editor)

 
9780671454678: Back to the Sources

Synopsis

1984, softcover, 448 pages, illustrated with some photographs of Jewish text pages, measures about 9 1/8 inches X 6 inches. "Back To The Sources is the best and most comprehensive introduction available for the study of traditional Jewish texts. Each of the volume's chapters is lively, accurate, informed, and enthusiastic. A reader equipped with this volume is in a superb position to return to the lasting sources of Jewish written culture." ~ Harold Bloom, Sterling professor of Humanities, Yale University

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With chapters written by leading scholars specifically for this volume, 'Back to the Sources' is the first comprehensive guide to this literary legacy: the Bible, the Talmud, the midrashic literature, the commentaries, the legal codes, the mystical texts of the Kabbalah and of Hasidism, the philosophical works and the prayerbook.

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