In this comprehensive commentary on Deuteronomy, Tigay handles the often complex text with the skill of a master scholar. Within the line-by-line commentary are elaborations on specific textual, historical and social issues that oftentimes continue through many pages. This is above and beyond the 33 excursuses to the commentary, the extensive footnotes and the helpful charts and maps.

In 1888, the Jewish Publication Society of America was founded in Philadelphia to provide Jewish immigrants’ children with English-language books about their heritage. The oldest publisher of English-language Jewish titles, JPS seeks to enhance Jewish culture by promoting the dissemination of religious and secular works of exceptional quality to all individuals and institutions, in the United States and abroad, interested in past and contemporary Jewish life.

The Jewish Publication Society started in 1888 as a way to provide the children of Jewish immigrants to the United States books about their heritage in the language of the New World. Since that time JPS has issued works for all tastes and needs; providing works for young readers, religious and philosophical studies, translations of scholarly and popular classics—and, of course, the famous JPS TANAKH. In keeping with this great tradition, we present the Hebrew Bible Reference Collection (4 vols.) from JPS. These four well-researched and illuminating studies are an asset to anyone looking to delve deeper into the Hebrew Bible and to see it through the eyes of its original audience. In this collection you will find essays on Hebraic exegesis, tools for bible study, bible commentary, a view of Judaic commentaries and interpretation over time, and a comprehensive biographical dictionary of the entire Hebrew Scriptures. The Hebrew Bible Reference Collection (4 Vols.) is a...