Michael Carasik PhD
Michael Carasik, PhD is the author/translator of The Commentator's Bible: The JPS Miqra'ot Gedolot: Exodus and The Commentators' Bible: The JPS Miqra'ot Gedolot Leviticus. He teaches Biblical Hebrew at the University of Pennsylvania and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College and Bible for the Me'ah program of adult Jewish learning. He received his Ph.D. in Bible and the Ancient Near East from Brandeis University, and has taught at various universities. He is the author of Theologies of the Mind in Biblical Israel and is a regular contributor of articles and reviews in scholarly journals. His weekly ''Torah Talk'' podcast is available at torahtalk.michaelcarasik.com or through the iTunes Store.
Carasik's speech topics include “Liars and Blasphemers: The Art of Translation,” “Rashi and Friends,” and “Using a Miqra’ot Gedolot.”
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Bibliography
- The Bible's Many Voices (author)
- The Commentators' Bible, The Rubin JPS Miqra'ot Gedolot: Exodus (author)
- The Commentators' Bible, The Rubin JPS Miqra'ot Gedolot: Leviticus (author)
- The Commentators' Bible, The Rubin JPS Miqra'ot Gedolot: Numbers (author)