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Check out the display of Genesis related books found in the Jacobs Library. As we begin the Torah cycle , you may find new insights into the oft told tales of human emotion, intrigue, and tangled relationships.

Formats are as varied as the stories: graphic novels, heavily researched tomes, poetry and for the younger set, of course, picture book interpretations of some very adult themes.

We often think of Bible STORIES as only for children, for we may remember the sanitized fairytale like retellings of our own childhoods. These versions often were not even edited Torah texts but midrashim, stories about stories, attempts to fill in the holes in the text.

Bible stories for children are shelved have the call  number J220.95 on their spines.

Bible related books for adults are in the 220  section.

And so it begins again. A good book is worth rereading- and the Torah is certainly a Good Book.

222.1 CRU                            The book of Genesis.

222.106 REA                        Reading Genesis. Summary:   The writers in this collection use insights from psychology, law, political science, literature, and other scholarly fields, to create an original constellation of modern Biblical readings, and receptions of Genesis

220.7 SAS       Sarna, Nahum M., 1923-. Understanding Genesis.

220.75 SAC    Sacks, Jonathan. Covenant & conversation, a weekly reading of the Jewish Bible.

222.1 MOY     Moyers, Bill D. Genesis. New York, Doubleday, 1996.

222.1 ROS      Rosenblatt, Naomi H. Wrestling With Angels.

222.1 VIS       Visotzky, Burton L. The Genesis Of Ethics. 

222.1 ZOR      Zornberg, Avivah Gottlieb. Genesis. Philadelphia,  

222.106 POL  Polisar, Barry Louis. Retelling Genesis.

222.106 ZEV  Zevit, Ziony. What really happened in the Garden of Eden?

222.175 GOO  Goodman, James. But where is the lamb?.

233 SAL          Salkin, Jeffrey K. The Gods are broken!.

808.1 GOL      Goldhaber, Judith. Sarah laughed.

973 GOL         Goldman, Anne E. Stargazing in the atomic age. Goldman yokes the central dramas of the modern age with the brilliant thinking of earlier eras. In these essays, Goldman reminds readers that Jewish history offers as many illustrations of accomplishment as of affliction. 

FIC FOER      Foer, Jonathan Safran. Here I am. .

J 220.95 LES  Lester, Julius. When the beginning began..

Summary:  A collection of traditional and original Jewish tales interpreting the Biblical story of the creation of the world.

OS 222.1 FEY Feyerick, Ada. Genesis.

 220.75 LEI     Leibowitz, Nehama. Studies in the book of Genesis in the context of ancient and modern Jewish Bible commentary

Check out the display of Genesis related books found in the Jacobs Library. As we begin the Torah cycle , you may find new insights into the oft told tales of human emotion, intrigue, and tangled relationships.

Formats are as varied as the stories: graphic novels, heavily researched tomes, poetry and for the younger set, of course, picture book interpretations of some very adult themes.

We often think of Bible STORIES as only for children, for we may remember the sanitized fairytale like retellings of our own childhoods. These versions often were not even edited Torah texts but midrashim, stories about stories, attempts to fill in the holes in the text.

Bible stories for children are shelved have the call  number J220.95 on their spines.

Bible related books for adults are in the 220  section.

And so it begins again. A good book is worth rereading- and the Torah is certainly a Good Book.

222.1 CRU                            The book of Genesis.

222.106 REA                        Reading Genesis. Summary:   The writers in this collection use insights from psychology, law, political science, literature, and other scholarly fields, to create an original constellation of modern Biblical readings, and receptions of Genesis

220.7 SAS       Sarna, Nahum M., 1923-. Understanding Genesis.

220.75 SAC    Sacks, Jonathan. Covenant & conversation, a weekly reading of the Jewish Bible.

222.1 MOY     Moyers, Bill D. Genesis. New York, Doubleday, 1996.

222.1 ROS      Rosenblatt, Naomi H. Wrestling With Angels.

222.1 VIS       Visotzky, Burton L. The Genesis Of Ethics. 

222.1 ZOR      Zornberg, Avivah Gottlieb. Genesis. Philadelphia,  

222.106 POL  Polisar, Barry Louis. Retelling Genesis.

222.106 ZEV  Zevit, Ziony. What really happened in the Garden of Eden?

222.175 GOO  Goodman, James. But where is the lamb?.

233 SAL          Salkin, Jeffrey K. The Gods are broken!.

808.1 GOL      Goldhaber, Judith. Sarah laughed.

973 GOL         Goldman, Anne E. Stargazing in the atomic age. Goldman yokes the central dramas of the modern age with the brilliant thinking of earlier eras. In these essays, Goldman reminds readers that Jewish history offers as many illustrations of accomplishment as of affliction. 

FIC FOER      Foer, Jonathan Safran. Here I am. .

J 220.95 LES  Lester, Julius. When the beginning began..

Summary:  A collection of traditional and original Jewish tales interpreting the Biblical story of the creation of the world.

OS 222.1 FEY Feyerick, Ada. Genesis.

 220.75 LEI     Leibowitz, Nehama. Studies in the book of Genesis in the context of ancient and modern Jewish Bible commentary