About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 58. Chapters: Rashi, Gersonides, Abraham ibn Ezra, Jacob Abendana, Saadia Gaon, Nahmanides, List of biblical commentaries, Isaac Abrabanel, Vilna Gaon, Moses Sofer, Moshe Feinstein, Shlomo Ganzfried, Menasseh Ben Israel, Joseph Kimhi, Tobiah ben Eliezer, Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, Tzvi Hirsch Ferber, Malbim, Meir Simcha of Dvinsk, Moses ha-Darshan, Nechama Leibowitz, Samuel Benjamin Sofer, Joseph ben Nathan Official, Ezra Palmer Gould, Chaim Dov Rabinowitz, Isaac ben Samuel, Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno, Chaim ibn Attar, Joseph ben Isaac Bekhor Shor, Zalman Sorotzkin, Avraham son of Rambam, Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, David Kimhi, Jacob ben Asher, Martin Franzmann, Rashbam, Aaron ben Asher of Karlin, Nissim of Gerona, Baruch Epstein, Abraham Lichtstein, Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz, Yisrael Ephraim Fischel Sofer, Isaac ben Joseph Caro, Samson ben Pesah Ostropoli, Samuel Vital, Aaron ibn Sargado, Abigdor Cohen of Vienna, Moses Kimhi, Joseph ibn Abitur, Yiram of Magdiel, Hezekiah ben Manoah, Hillel ben Naphtali Zevi, Isaac ben Asher ha-Levi, Henry Hampton Halley, Isaac Halberstam. Excerpt: This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: This is an outline of commentaries and commentators. Discussed are the salient points of Jewish, patristic, medieval, and modern commentaries on the Bible. The article includes discussion of the Targums, Mishna, and Talmuds, which are not regarded as Bible commentaries in the modern sense of the word, but which provide the foundation for later commentary. This article focuses on Christian Biblical commentaries; for more on Jewish Biblical commentaries, see Jewish commentaries on the Bible. That Greek literature, in general, got its inspiration from Moses was an uncritical idea that dated back as far as Philo, the great Jewish writer of Alexandria. A visitor to Alexandria at the tim...