Books by Tamara Cohn Eskenazi

Provides a critical, line-by-line commentary of the biblical text, presented in its original Hebrew, complete with vocalization and cantillation marks, as well as the 1985 JPS English translation. The extensive introduction places the book within its historical, literary, and critical context, discusses contemporary interpretations of the story of Ruth, and examines its major motifs and themes.

With one Australian exception, American scholars of religious, Judaic, and biblical studies explore the work of Lithuanian-born French Jewish thinker Emmanuel Levinas (1905-95) as it relates to their fields. His own essay On the Jewish Reading of Scriptures precedes ten others on such topics as his biblical hermeneutic, facing Job, eschatology, t