Biblical Criticism and Commentary
The Divine Symphony: The Bible’s Many Voices – Israel Knohl
The Beginning of Desire – Aviva Zornberg Gottleib
The Particulars of Rapture: Reflections on Exodus – Aviva Zornberg Gottleib
The Dawn: Political Teachings of the Book of Esther – Yoram Hazony
How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now – James Kugel
The Bible with Sources Revealed – Richard Elliot Friedman
Who Wrote the Bible? – Richard Elliot Friedman
The Bible As It Was - James Kugel
The God of Old: Inside the Lost World of the Bible – James Kugel
How to Read the Jewish Bible – Marc Zvi Brettler
Revelation Restored: Divine Writ And Critical Responses – David Weiss Halivni
Masters of the Word: Traditional Jewish Bible Commentary from the First Through Tenth Centuries – Yonatan Kolatch
Masters of the Word: Traditional Jewish Bible Commentary from the Eleventh Through Thirteenth Centuries – Yonatan Kolatch
Understanding Genesis (The heritage of Biblical Israel) – Nahum Sarna
Exploring Exodus: The Origins of Biblical Israel – Nahum Sarna
Midrash and Midrashic Analysis
Book of Legends/Sefer Ha-Aggadah: Legends from the Talmud and Midrash – Hayyim Nahman Bialik and Y.H. Rawnitzky
Legends of the Jews (2-Volume Set) – Louis Ginzburg
Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism – Howard Schwartz
Biblical Women in the Midrash: A SourceBook – Naomi Mara Hyman
Philosophy and Halachic Authority
People of the Book: Canon, Meaning, and Authority – Moshe Halbertal
Must a Jew Believe Anything? Second Edition with a New Afterword – Menachem Kellner
The Limits of Orthodox Theology: Maimonides’ Thirteen Principles Reappraised – Marc Shapiro
Peshat and Derash: Plain and Applied Meaning in Rabbinic Exegesis – David Weiss Halivni
Breaking the Tablets: Jewish Theology After the Shoah – David Weiss Halivni
Not in Heaven: The Nature and Function of Halakha – Eliezer Berkovits
A Living Covenant: The Innovative Spirit in Traditional Judaism – David Hartman
Love and Terror in the God Encounter: The Theological Legacy of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik- David Hartman
The Sabbath – Abraham Joshua Heschel
Principles and Development of Jewish Law: The Concepts and History of Rabbinic Jurisprudence from Its Inception to Modern Times – Mendel Lewittes
Judaism as a Civilization – Mordecai Kaplan
History, Culture, and Politics
Ancient Israel: From Abraham to the Roman Destruction of the Temple – Herschel Shanks
From Text to Tradition, a History of Judaism in Second Temple and Rabbinic Times: A History of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism – Lawrence Shiffman
The Rebbe’s Army: Inside the World of Chabad-Lubavitch – Sue Fishkoff
The Holocaust Is Over; We Must Rise From its Ashes – Avraham Burg
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin Classics) – Hannah Arendt
The Destruction of the European Jews *3 Volumes* – Raul Hilberg
Translations and Study Guides
Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures–The New JPS Translation According to the Traditional Hebrew Text
The Koren Sacks Siddur: A Hebrew/English Prayerbook, Personal Size (Hebrew Edition)
The Essential Talmud – Adin Steinsaltz
Fiction
The Slave – Isaac Bashevis Singer
As a Driven Leaf
– Milton Steinberg