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The biblical commentaries known as Miqra’ot Gedolot have inspired and educated generations of Hebrew readers. With the publication of this edition—the final volume of the acclaimed JPS English edition of Miqra’ot Gedolot—the voices of Rashi, Ibn Ezra, Nachmanides, Rashbam, Abarbanel, Kimhi, and other medieval Bible commentators come alive once more, speaking in a contemporary English translation...

ABARBANEL’S QUESTIONS ♦ Why is the Creator called “God” throughout this chapter rather than “Lord” (that is, the Tetragrammaton), which is the name linked to creation by all the prophets? ♦ Once “God created the heaven and the earth” (v. 1, OJPS), doesn’t that already imply their complete material existence? So if God created them “in the beginning,” what was left to be created afterward? (I cannot accept the explanations of Rashi and Ibn Ezra, nor, for that matter, that of Nahmanides.)
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