The newest book in Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg's award-winning series of commentaries on the hebrew bible.
The book of Numbers is the narrative of a great failure. What should have been for the Israelites a brief journey from Mount Sinai to the Holy Land becomes a forty-year death march. Both befo[...]
This is an intellectually stimulating and personally uplifting exploration of Genesis. "Genesis: The Beginning of Desire" breathes new life into the stories of Adam and Eve, Noah, Abraham and Sarah, Isaac, Jacob and Esau, Rachel, and Joseph. Zornberg brings biblical, midrashic, and literary sources [...]