- Methodological Comments Source Sheet PDF
- Rashi’s Five Ways of Using Midrash (A. Grossman)
- Ibn Ezra’s Five Ways (of exegesis) PDF *updated*
- Bila’am Source Sheet PDF
- מקורות בתנחומא לרש”י על בלק, במ’ כב ה
- A Sample of Seforno on Parashat Balaq
- Supercommentaries (A Few Examples)
- Ibn Ezra’s Secret of the Twelve (on Sefaria, with highlights)
Special Readings:
- Se’adyah Tafsir (Qafih/Kapah ed. in Torat Hayyim) to Bereshit 3 PDF (from first day of class)
- Ramban on Bamidbar 20 7-8 (Huqqat) – Excerpts (for March 19)
- Ramban on Bamidbar 20 7-8 – SELECTIONS HIGHLIGHTED – this version of the reading shows the entire comment in the handout above (6 pp.), so you can see what I excerpted for us to work on in class; the parts I omitted are grayed out.
Assignment Instructions:
- BIB 621a Assignment 1.pdf (due Monday, Feb. 26)
- BIB 521a Assignment 2 (Prospectus) (due Monday, April 9)
- BIB 621a Final Assignment PDF (also included in the prospectus instructions; due Sunday, May 6)