BOOK LISTS SPRING 5774

BIB 101 - Intro to - Frederick Greenspahn, ed., The Hebrew Bible: New Insights and Scholarship - Elliott Rabin, Understanding the Hebrew Bible: A Reader’s Guide - Marc Zvi Brettler, How to Read the Bible

BIB 342 - The Female Body in Biblical Literature Required - Hebrew or Hebrew-English NJPS Tanakh Recommended - Alice Bach, Women in the Hebrew Bible

BIB 350 - Intro to Parshanut - Rabbi Len Levin Required We will be studying intensively from Genesis, with short selections from Exodus, Leviticus and possibly other books. While you can get by with photocopies of selected pages, we recommend you seriously consider acquiring the Miqraot Gedolot set that you intend to use for your permanent library. We recommend either Torah Hayyim or Keter. Recommended - Pinchas Doron, The Mystery of Creation according to Rashi: A New Translation and Interpretation of Rashi on Genesis I–VI (New York / , Moznaim: 1982). - Jay Harris. How Do We Know This? (Albany, SUNY: 1994) - Barry Holtz, ed. Back to the Sources (New York, Simon & Schuster / Summit: 1984), Chapter Four: - Edward L. Greenstein, “Medieval Bible Commentaries.” - Liber, Maurice. Rashi (New York: Hermon, 1970 or Dybbuk 2006 reprints of original JPS 1906 edition) Encyclopedia Judaica (Jerusalem, Keter: 1971) Articles: - Ibn Ezra, Abraham (8:1163) - Nahmanides (12:774) - Rashi (Solomon ben Isaac) (13:1558) - Samuel ben Meir (Rashbam) (14:809) - Otzar Roshei Tevot (not needed for Torat Hayyim but you should be prepared to use more traditional, less user-friendly texts as well).

HEB 320 - Biblical Grammar - Weingreen, J., A Practical Grammar for Classical Hebrew (London: Oxford, 1963)

LIT 271 - Tefillah and Seminar - Lawrence Hoffman, The Art of Public Prayer: Not For Clergy Only - Menachem Kallus, Pillar of Prayer - Rabbi Mike Comins, Making Prayer Real: Leading Jewish Spiritual Voices on Why Prayer is Difficult and What to Do About It - Aryeh Kaplan, Jewish Meditation

PHI 475 - Personal Theology Recommended Primary Texts: - Eugene Borowitz, Renewing the Covenant - Neil Gillman, Sacred Fragments - Arthur Green, Radical - , A Living Covenant Other recommended books: - Elliot Dorff, Knowing God - Irwin Kula, Yearnings - Harold Kushner, When Bad Things Happen to Good People - David Hartman, and the Jewish Tradition - , The Personhood of God Also suggested - Neil Gilman, The Death of Death - Jay Michaelson, Everything Is God - Simcha PaullRaphael, Jewish Views of the Afterlife - Elie Kaplan Spitz, Does the Soul Survive? Share your additional suggestions with the class!

Students who have taken courses in Medieval and Modern are advised to have the materials for these courses on hand, as selected reference will be made to them. In addition, a Google Docs “share” of supplementary readings for this course will be provided - see contents at the end of this syllabus.

PRO 350 - Conversion Required Texts - Lawrence J. Epstein, Conversion to Judaism: A Guidebook (1994). - Rabbi Bernice K. Weiss, Converting to Judaism: Choosing To Be Chosen, Personal Stories (2000). Written by a graduate of the Academy for Jewish Religion (note that she thanks Rabbi Isaac Mann in the Acknowledgements)!

PRO 470 - Chaplaincy - Mitchell and Anderson, All Our Losses All Our Grief

PRO 700 – FWSS - H. Frederick Sweitzer & Mary A. King, The Successful Internship: Personal, Professional, and Civic Development, 3rd Edition, Brooks/Cole, Cenage Learning, Belmont, CA 2009 - Jack Bloom, The Rabbi As Symbolic Exemplar, The Haworth Press, NY 2002. - Terry Bookman and William Kahn, This House We Build: Lessons for Healthy Synagogues and the People Who Dwell There, The Alban Institute, Herndon, Virginia, 2007. - Roger Fisher and Ury, Getting to Yes, Penguin Books, NY, 1991. - Edwin H. Friedman, Generation to Generation: Family Process in Church and Synagogue, The Guilford Press, NY, 1985.

RAB 110 – Intro to Midrash Required - The Tanakh and a source packet.

RAB 231 Intro to Talmud Required 1- Steinsaltz Talmud, volume 1, Berakhot. This is the all-Hebrew edition of the Steinsaltz Talmud. There are two all-Hebrew editions of the Steinsaltz Talmud. One is the original edition, in which Steinsaltz re-set the entire Talmud in a different form from the traditional Vilna-Romm edition. That’s the one we will use. The other is called the “Tzurat HaDaf” edition. That edition includes the Vilna-Romm edition’s version of each page of Talmud facing each page of the Steinsaltz version. That is not the one we will use. 2- Marcus, Jastrow, A Dictionary of the Targumim, Talmud Bavli, Talmud Yerushalmi and Midrashic Literature. This book is available in standard, hard-copy form. It is also available, in its entirety, available for free (!) on the web. Just search a bit and you’ll find it. 3- Aryeh Carmell, Aiding Talmud Study, 1986 edition or later Recommended books and articles: - , The Talmud: A Reference Guide. STRONGLY recommended. Available used in hardcover on Amazon for about $36. The AJR library owns a couple of copies, but they are on Reference, and so cannot be taken out of the Bet Midrash. It would be helpful to have this when preparing homework. - Yitzhak Frank, The Practical Talmud Dictionary. - Mielziner, Introduction to the Talmud, 1894, 1925, 1968. - Richard Kalmin, “The Formation and Character of the Babylonian Talmud,” Chapter 33 in The Cambridge - History of Judaism. - Abraham Goldberg's chapter "The Babylonian Talmud" in The Literature of the Sages, vol. 1, ed. by Shmuel Safrai, 1987.

RAB 431 - Inter./Adv. Talmud - Steinsaltz Talmud, Hullin, vol 40 part 2.