Gain entrance to the world of Rashi via a wide-ranging introduction and a thorough explication of one of his most important commentaries.—Isaac Gottlieb, Review of Biblical Literature

In 2004, Mayer Gruber’s landmark Rashi’s Commentary on Psalms made one of the 11th-century scholar’s most important works accessible to a larger audience for the first time. The JPS paperback edition of this exceptional volume includes the complete original Hebrew text and acclaimed linguist Mayer Gruber’s contemporary English translation and supercommentary.

Fully annotated by Gruber, Rashi’s Commentary on Psalms places Rashi, the most influential Hebrew biblical commentator of all time, in the larger context of biblical exegesis. Gruber identifies Rashi’s sources, pinpoints the exegetical questions to which Rashi responds, defines the nuances of Rashi’s terminology, and guides the reader to use the English translation as a tool to access the original Hebrew text. Gruber’s extensive introduction takes a critical look at Rashi and his enduring legacy.

About the Author

Mayer I. Gruber is Professor in the Department of Bible Archaeology and Ancient Near East at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheva, Israel. He received rabbinic ordination from the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1970 and holds a Ph.D. in ancient Semitic languages and literatures from Columbia University. His past publications include Aspects of Nonverbal Communication in the Ancient Near East, and The Motherhood of God and Other Studies, and the commentary on the book of Job in the Oxford Jewish Study Bible.

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