Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Yitzhak Sapir" <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>]

On Nov 18, 2007 2:07 AM, Shoshanna Walker wrote:
> Stone Chumash:

The Stone Chumash very often gives a distorted interpretation of
the commentators.  Sometimes, when they disagree, it harmonizes
them.  Sometimes, if the commentator writes something with which
the editor of the Stone Chumash does not agree, the commentator
is left untranslated.  It is best to go to the commentators themselves.

For the Chumash, good Mikraot Gedolot editions are available.
There is one by Mosad Harav Kook, and Bar Ilan's Mikraot Gedolot
series intends to cover the entire Bible.  Both of these are based on
corrected readings from manuscripts so that many errors present in
the printed editions are corrected.

Yitzhak Sapir