Research Guides @ Fordham: Jewish Studies: Religious Texts & Manuscripts

Selection of Commentaries and Companions

The Jewish Study Bible by Adele Berlin (Editor); Marc Zvi Brettler (Editor)
Oxford University Press, 2014.
Call number [LC & RH Stacks] BS895 .J4 2014
The Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literature by Martin S. Jaffee (Editor); Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert (Editor)
Cambridge University Press, 2007.
The JPS B'nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary by Jeffrey K. Salkin
University of Nebraska Press, 2017.
The Babylonian Esther Midrash [electronic resource] : A Critical Commentary (2nd ed.) by Eliezer Segal
Check the catalog for access to volumes 1-3.
Scholars Press, 2020.

Articles & Databases
Looking for articles? Try searching in the recommended databases for Jewish Studies.

Ktiv: International Collection Of Digitized Hebrew Manuscripts
A partnership between the National Library of Israel and the Friedberg Jewish Manuscript Society (FJMS) to make Jewish manuscripts widely available. Includes links to manuscript collections at institutions around the world.
Digitized Book Repository at the National Library of Israel
Hundreds of scanned books are accessible online with new titles added every week. Titles range from 15th century incunabula to early 20th century works.
Discovering Sacred Texts
An online learning resource from The British Library with over 270 digital collection items alongside teaching resources and articles written by academics, curators, and faith leaders.
Sefaria
Open library of Jewish texts in Hebrew and English translation.
New English Translation of the Septuagint
Contains the masters of the second printing of A New English Translation of the Septuagint, as published by Oxford University Press in 2009.
Digital Dead Sea Scrolls
A partnership between the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and Google. Currently providing digital access to five of the Dead Sea Scrolls: the Great Isaiah Scroll, the Community Rule Scroll, the Commentary on Habakkuk Scroll, the Temple Scroll, and the War Scroll.

Deconstructing the Talmud [electronic resource] : The Absolute Book by Federico Dal Bo
Routledge, 2020.
A Historical Theology of the Hebrew Bible by Konrad Schmid
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2019.
Engaging Torah : Modern Perspectives on the Hebrew Bible by Walter Homolka and Aaron Panken (editors)
Hebrew Union College Press, 2018.
Call number [RH Stacks] BS1178.H4 E54 2018
Hā-ʼîsh Mōshe: Studies in Scriptural Interpretation in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Literature in Honor of Moshe J. Bernstein by Binyamin Y. Goldstein, Michael Segal, and George J. Brooke (editors)
Brill, 2018.
Call number [RH Stacks] BM487 .I75 2018
Other Others : The Political After the Talmud by Sergey Dolgopolski
Fordham University Press, 2018.
Call number [RH Stacks & LC Quinn Stacks] DS145 .D77 2018