Covenant & Conversation: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible, Genesis, the Book of Beginnings

Sacks, Jonathan

ISBN 10: 1592640206 / ISBN 13: 9781592640201

Published by Maggid, United States, 2009

About this Item

hardback, octavo, a fine tightly bound copy with clean and unmarked contents and in a very well preserved pictorial dust jacket. 356pp.

Seller Inventory # 298837

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Covenant & Conversation: A Weekly Reading of the Jewish Bible, Genesis, the Book of Beginnings
• Publisher: Maggid, United States
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1592640206
• ISBN 13: 9781592640201
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

About this title

Synopsis

The Jewish Bible is an encounter between past and present, moment and eternity. This collection of biblical commentaries explores these intersections as they relate to universal concerns of freedom, love, responsibility, identity and destiny.

About the Author

Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Commonwealth, is one of the world s leading Jewish figures. Educated at Cambridge University and Jews College London, he has served as Principal of Jews College London and President of the Council of Christians and Jews in the United Kingdom. Chief Rabbi Sacks is the author of numerous books of Jewish thought, and recently provided the English translation and commentary for The Koren Sacks Siddur, the first new Orthodox prayer book in a generation.