Exodus Study Group, Week 1

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Our Exodus (Shemot) study group met for the first time on Wednesday, January 3.

Here is the study sheet that we used during the class:

Exodus Study Group Week 1.

Note that on the sheet, I shared four translations of our Torah text:

1) Jewish Publication Society (JPS)

2) Everett Fox

3) Richard Elliott Friedman

4) Robert Alter

The first two are available online as options for viewing the Torah on the Sefaria website:

https://www.sefaria.org/Exodus.1.1?ven=Tanakh:_The_Holy_Scriptures,_published_by_JPS&lang=en&with=Translations&lang2=en

https://www.sefaria.org/Exodus.1.1?ven=The_Five_Books_of_Moses,_by_Everett_Fox._New_York,_Schocken_Books,_1995&lang=en&with=Translations&lang2=en

JPS is the translation used in our chumash, Etz Hayim

Everett Fox's translation can be acquired in book form  here: https://www.amazon.com/Five-Books-Moses-Leviticus-Deuteronomy/dp/0805211195

Richard Eliott Friedman's translation is here: https://www.amazon.com/Commentary-Torah-Richard-Elliott-Friedman/dp/0060507179

and Robert Alter's translation is here: https://www.amazon.com/Five-Books-Moses-Robert-Alter/dp/B000YITC1G

The video of the class  can be viewed here:

 

 

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