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  • From: Dan Kaplan <dan AT publishersrow.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Save preparation time - and save more than $700 - by purchasing digital Judaic books this week!
  • Date: 17 Aug 2005 07:05:32 -0500

Dear Colleague,

Please consider this special invitation to purchase our Rabbinic Bookshelf
at 45% off the regular price.

This collection of 15 titles was developed with you in mind, in the hopes
that you will purchase it for use at your institution.

You can install these remarkable resources on up to three computers. Feel
free to put them on your laptop and on your home computer as well. They're
fully searchable, and you can copy, paste and print as much material as
you'd like.

B'Shalom,

Dan Kaplan, Marketing Director
Varda Books

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Works Included in this Collection


JPS Hebrew-English Tanakh


This ground-breaking electronic edition of "The JPS Hebrew-English Tanakh"
in Adobe PDF format, is made to be a centerpiece of an open-standards
digital Torah-centered library. A true searchable replica (including
cantillation marks) of the original 2nd printed edition, it is a MUST for
any serious student of The Holy Scriptures.
(if purchased separately)
$ 69.95


JPS Torah Commentary: Genesis
by Nahum M. Sarna

The JPS Torah Commentary series guides readers through the words and ideas
of the Torah. Each volume is the work of a scholar who stands at the
pinnacle of his field. Masterly commentary on the first book of the Bible
by eminent Jewish scholar.
(if purchased separately)
$ 65.00


JPS Torah Commentary: Exodus
by Nahum M. Sarna
Another superb commentary on the second book of the Bible by eminent Jewish
scholar.
(if purchased separately)
$ 65.00


JPS Torah Commentary: Leviticus
by Baruch A. Levine
Levine ably brings modern scholarship as well as rabbinic commentary to
bear when discussing the text in this third book in JPS Torah Commentary
series.
(if purchased separately)
$ 65.00


JPS Torah Commentary: Numbers
by Jacob Milgrom
Commentary on the Torah' fourth book by one of the most interesting modern
Jewish thinkers.
(if purchased separately)
$ 65.00


JPS Torah Commentary: Deuteronomy
by Jeffrey H. Tigay
The fifth and final JPS commentary on the last book of the Torah.
(if purchased separately)
$ 65.00

JPS Bible Commentary: Esther
by Adele Berlin
In this addition to the Jewish Publication Society's commentary series, the
reader will further be rewarded with many productive and original insights:
in this particular case on the background of the feast of Purim.
(if purchased separately)
$ 65.00

JPS Bible Commentary: Jonah
by Uriel Simon
This fine commentary is based closely on the author's original Hebrew
commentary (Am Oved, 1992), with some revision and expansion.
(if purchased separately)
$ 35.00


JPS Bible Commentary: Haftarot
by Michael Fishbane
The most recent addition to the JPS Bible Commentary series covers the
varied selections from the Nevi'im that comprise the haftarot, chanted on
Sabbaths and holy days in synagogues.
(if purchased separately)
$ 95.00


Legends of the Jews
by Louis Ginzberg
A most remarkable and comprehensive compilation of stories connected to the
Hebrew Bible drawn largely on Jewish lore and tradition. It is an
indispensable reference on that body of literature known as Midrash, the
imaginative retelling and elaboration on Bible stories in which
mythological tales about demons and magic co-exist with moralistic stories
about the piety of the patriarchs.
(if purchased separately)
$ 150.00


Mekhilta de-Rabbi Ishmael (3 vols.)
by Jacob Lauterbach (tr.)
An electronic edition of JPS's original 3-volume set, based on manuscript
and early editions.
(if purchased separately)
$ 85.00

Pesikta de-Rab Kahana
by William G. Braude (Gershon Zev) (Translator)
A winner of the National Jewish Book Award in 1976, this book is the
translation of the Pesikta, a famous collection of midrashim. The Pesikta
emerged in a time of deep crisis for the Jewish people, disappeared
sometime in the sixteenth century, and was reborn only in the nineteenth
century.
(if purchased separately)
$ 49.95

Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer
by Gerald Friedlander (Translator and editor)
Kabbalistic midrashic work on Genesis, part of Exodus, and a few sentences
of Numbers ascribed to R. Eliezer b. Hyrcanus.
(if purchased separately)
$ 37.95


Tanna Debe Eliyyahu: The Lore of the School of Elijah
by William G. Braude (Gershon Zev) (Translator)
Tanna debe Eliyyahu is a midrashic work thought to have been composed
between the third and the tenth centuries. Unlike all the other Midrashim,
it is a unified work shaped with a character of its own. This work has
never before been translated from the original Hebrew.
(if purchased separately)
$ 36.95


Treatise Ta`anit of the Babylonian Talmud: Critically Edited and Provided
With A Translation and Notes
by Henry Malter
This book presents the first critical edition of the Talmudic text based on
a minute collation of all the existing manuscripts and early editions of
the Talmud itself, as well as of the Mishnah, Tosefta, the numerous halakic
and haggadic Midrashim, the Yerushalmi, and the so-called Minor Tractates.
The text is translated and elucidated for the benefit of a wider circle of
readers, who are not in a position to study the original.
(if purchased separately)
$ 31.95

Total if purchased separately $961.75
Your Cost: $259.00
You Save: $702.75


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