Stringing the Pearls How to Read the Weekly Torah Portion

Name: Stringing the Pearls How to Read the Weekly Torah Portion
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ISBN: 9780827608689

ISBN-10: 0827608683

ISBN-13: 9780827608689

Edition: 2008

Authors: James S. Diamond

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Diamond, a consummate teacher of the Bible, provides a clear and simple (but not simplistic) method for reading and understanding the weekly Torah portions. This is a how-to book, not an interpretive one. It is not a commentary on each week's reading, but rather an "instruction manual" on how each of us can read and interpret for ourselves the 54 Torah portions of the year. Diamond provides a set of structured guidelines to the readings, and then he leads us through one Torah portion from each of the five biblical books to give us examples of how we can continue the "stringing" process on our own. He concludes with a personal guide to recommended Bible commentaries so readers can engage…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
Publication date: 3/17/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.03" wide x 8.75" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Preface


How to Read This Book


A Note to the Christian Reader


What Is What: Some Basic Terms



Preliminaries: What Are We Talking About?



Starting Points



The Weekly Torah Portion: What Is a Parashah?



What Is the Tanakh?



Bible and Torah: What Is the Difference?



Reading and Hearing



On Reading



Reading the Humash



On Hearing



Hearing the Humash



Some Major Approaches to Reading a Parashah



Modern Historical-Critical Approaches



Premodern Ahistorical Approaches



Existential Readings



How to Read a Weekly Torah Portion



Which Humash to Use?



Reading a Parashah: A Four-Step Process



What to Look for in a Parashah



The Fourth Step



Navigating the Parshiyot



Commentaries: A Concise Guide



Humash Commentaries



Other Historical-Critical Commentaries: The Anchor Bible Series



The Great Medieval Commentaries



Synthetic Commentaries



Midrash



Women's Commentaries



Web Resources


Afterthoughts


Notes


Works Cited


Index