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Article: The Commentators' Bible. The JPS Miqra'ot Gedolot. Shemot Exodus.(Brief article)(Book review)
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- Currents in Theology and Mission
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- June 1, 2007
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The Commentators' Bible. The JPS Miqra'ot Gedolot. Shemot Exodus. Edited by Michael Carask (Jewish Publication Society, $75). This is a "large format Bible," containing on every page a short Hebrew text from Exodus, two twentieth-century Jewish English translations, and the medieval commentaries of Rashi (1040-1105), Rashbam (1085-1174, Rashi's grandson), Ibn Ezra (1089-1164), and Nahmanides (1195-1270), all in English. (Other medieval commentators are included now and then). Reading these multiple commentaries together on one page engages the reader ...