Dear Colleagues: An outstanding addition to all university and synagogue library collections is the recently published :
RASHI'S COMMENTARY ON PSALMS Mayer I. Gruber ISBN 90 04 13251 1 Hardback (xvi, 920 pp., 1 vols), English List price: EUR 179.- / US$ 219.- The Brill Reference Library of Judaism, 18 This new volume in the Reference Library of Judaism faithfully presents the complete Hebrew text of Rashi's (1040-1105) psalter commentary according to Vienna Heb. ms. 220 together with a fully annotated scientific translation into contemporary idiomatic English. The supercommentary places one of the finest commentaries by the single most influential Hebrew biblical exegete in dialogue with the full gamut of ancient, medieval and modern exegesis. The supercommentary identifies Rashi's sources and pinpoints the exegetical cruces to which Rashi responds, defines the nuances of Rashi's exegetical, linguistic and theological terminolgy, and guides readers to use the translation to gain access to the Hebrew. The introductory chapters constitute the most up-to-date discussion of the scope of Rashi's literary legacy and of the history of research. They include highly original discussions of the Chronicles and Ezra-Nehemiah commentaries commonly attributed to Rashi and fully annotated English translations of 1) Rashi's programmatic essay on the problem of homonymity in biblical exegesis; 2) Rashi's commentaries on liturgical poetry; 3) one of Rashi's liturgical poems, and 4) the famous medieval poem, which declares Rashi to be the Torah Commentator par excellence. Mayer I. Gruber is Associate Professor in the Department of Bible & Ancient Near East at Ben-Gurion University. To order: Plantijnstraat 2, 2321 JC Leiden The Netherlands Tel: +31 (0)71 53 53 500 Fax: +31 (0)71 53 17 532 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Office hours: 08.30 hrs to 17.30 hrs North America Ordering & Customer Services Brill Academic Publishers P.O. Box 605 Herndon, VA 20172 Tel: 1-800-337-9255 (toll free, USA and Canada only) Tel: 1-703-661-1585 Fax: 1-703-661-1501 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ========================================================================== HaSafran - The Electronic Forum of the Association of Jewish Libraries Submissions for HaSafran, send to: Hasafran at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listserver at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 at osu.edu AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org/
