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SHADAL ON EXODUS IBD

KODESH PRESS L.L.C.
03 / 2019
9780997820577
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Sinopsis

Samuel David Luzzatto (1800-1865), known by his Hebrew acronym Shadal, was the leading Italian Jewish scholar of the 19th century. A linguist, educator, and religious thinker, he devoted his talents above all to the interpretation of the Bible. As a master of Hebrew grammar and usage, he focused on the plain meaning of the text. Although he was a devout believer in the divinity, unity, and antiquity of the Torah, Shadal approached the text in a remarkably free spirit of inquiry, drawing upon a wide variety of sources, ancient and contemporary, Jewish and non-Jewish. As a result, his interpretations may strike even the modern reader as fresh and novel.Among the highlights of Shadal&rsquo,s Exodus (Shemot) commentary are his view of the Ten Plagues as nature-based phenomena that nevertheless contained supranatural qualities, his discerning literary analysis of the Song of the Sea, and his daring willingness&mdash,despite his acceptance of rabbinic halakhah in practice&mdash,to look behind the Rabbis&rsquo, interpretation of the book&rsquo,s legal sections and examine their literal meanings.Shadal&rsquo,s treatment of Exodus, as well as the other books of the Torah, consisted of his Italian translation of the text and his Hebrew-language commentary. Here, for the first time, is an all-English version of both the text translation and the unabridged commentary, the first complete edition of Shadal&rsquo,s Exodus since its original publication in 1872. The translator-editor has supplied explanatory notes and a list identifying the sources cited.