The Torah: A Modern Commentary: Genesis

xxxiii, 584 pp. Hebrew and English text. Front endpapers illustrated with a map of the Fertile Crescent. Rear paste down endpaper illustrated with the routes of Abraham and Isaac, Jacob and Esau (modern names and places). CONTENTS: Preface; Introducing Genesis: On Reading this Commentary - Transliterations - Genesis as a Book; Genesis and Ancient Near Eastern Literature; Part I. Prologue; Part II. Beginnings: The Lines of Heaven, Earth and Primeval Man; Part III. The Line of Terah: Abraham; Part IV. The Line of Isaac; Part V. The Line of Jacob; Reference Notes; Bibliography: Biblical and Talmudic Abbreviations - Bible Translations - Midrashic and Post-Midrashic Collections - Commentaries on Genesis - Selected English Bibliography; Haftarot.