[Translation: EF/Everett Fox, The Five Books of Moses. Commentary is mostly Sinaite indicated by S6K ; additional commentary from P&H/Pentateuch & Haftorah and AST/ArtScroll Tanach. Reformatted for posting.—Admin1.] ————————- S6K: Ugly duckling to swan; absent-minded professor to suave debonair lady’s man; skinny awkward teen with two-left feet to premiere ballerina. Transformation from inferior to superior is the predictable plot […]
[Translation: EF/Everett Fox, The Five Books of Moses. Commentary is mostly Sinaite indicated by S6K ; additional commentary from P&H/Pentateuch & Haftorah and AST/ArtScroll Tanach. Reformatted for posting.—Admin1.] ————————- S6K: Ugly duckling to swan; absent-minded professor to suave debonair lady’s man; skinny awkward teen with two-left feet to premiere ballerina. Transformation from inferior to superior is the predictable plot […]
Read more[Translation: Everett Fox, The Five Books of Moses. Commentary from P&H/Pentateuch& Haftorahs and AST/ArtScroll Tanach.—Admin1.] From Pharaoh’s court to the wanderer in the wilderness; from bachelor to husband to Zipporah; and father to firstborn Gershom (“a stranger there”) from prince of Egypt to shepherd for the flocks of father-in-law Jethro who’s a priest of Midian; —–thus far, this is […]
Read moreIn the previous article “What if you were a Hebrew slave in Egypt” we speculated if, after 400+ years, the generation of Yaakovites/Israelites who have become slaves to a ‘Pharaoh who did not know Yosef” would know anything at all about their roots and ancestry. Would if they even care about who they supposedly are, […]
Read more[This Introduction is from Pentateuch & Haftorahs, ed. Dr. J.H. Hertz, a publication of the Soncino Press. Reformatted for post.] NAME. The Second Book of Moses was originally called ‘the Book of the Going out of Egypt.’ At an early date, however, it came to be known as ve-eleh shemoth from its opening phrase, ‘ And these are […]
Read moreSunday at sundown, September 30, 2012 is the beginning of the celebration of the last of the fall festivals called Sukkot, alternately called festival of booths, or feast of tabernacles. Notice the ‘Our’ in the title of this article on Sukkot. Of course, first and foremost, that “OUR” would refer to the chosen […]
Read more[The previous post on this chapter titled Strange Interlude: Judah and Tamar featured the Sinaites’ discussion, without the aid of commentaries. Here, three commentaries are featured, as usual. Unbracketed commentary is from Pentateuch and Haftorahs, ed. Dr. J.H. Hertz; additional commentary from RA/Robert Alter, and the translator of The Five Books of Moses , EF/ Everett Fox; this is a free […]
Read moreAs usual, in our thinking aloud while rereading the final chapters in this book of beginnings . . . Here is yet another switching of the younger for the older son in the bestowal of blessing upon the firstborn. As dim as the eyes of Jacob were and even with Joseph’s guidance on which […]
Read more[This chapter connects with Genesis/Bereshith 15 : 13 And he said to Avram: You must know, yes, know that your seed will be sojourners in a land not theirs; they will put them in servitude and afflict them for four hundred years. Highlights: God assures Jacob-now-Israel that this move has been divinely-arranged, that […]
Read more[Unbracketed commentary is from Pentateuch and Haftorahs, ed. Dr. J.H. Hertz; additional commentary from RA/Robert Alter, and EF/Everett Fox whose translation The Five Books of Moses is featured in this website.] Genesis/Bereshith 44 The chapter sets forth Joseph’s device to test still further the sincerity and loyalty of his brethren. 1-17. THE DIVINING CUP 1 Now he commanded the steward […]
Read moreFamiliarity with the Joseph story breeds not contempt but saturation. Let’s leave the biblical text alone for now, it sufficiently tells a straightforward story without unnecessary interpretive assistance, though the subsequent posts will feature as usual the three commentaries we’ve chosen as aid to readers. Below the maps are chapter 42 and 43 for straight […]
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