Suggested Readings


Bible:

Understanding Genesis, Nahum Sarna

Exploring Exodus, Nahum Sarna

The Genesis of Ethics, Burton Visotsky

On The Book of Psalms, Nahum Sarna

Exodus and Revolution, Michael Walzer

Ben Gurion Looks at the Bible, Ben Gurion

How to Read the Bible, Marc Brettler

The Bible as it Was, James Kugel

The Ladder of Jacob, James Kugel

The Bible Unearthed, Finkelstein and Silberman

The Hidden Book in the Bible, Richard Friedman

Halachah:

Not in Heaven, Eliezer Berkovits

The Halachah, Ephraim Urbach

Minhagei Yisrael, Daniel Sperber

Halachah V'kabbalah, Yaakov Katz

Understanding Rabbinic Judaism, Jacob Neusner

The Shabbes Goy, Yaakov Katz

 


Jewish Thought:
Essential Essays on Judaism, Eliezer Berkovits

Judaism as a Civilization, Mordechai Kaplan

Jewish People, Jewish Thought, Robert Seltzerr

We Jews, Adin Steinzaltz

On Being Free, Adin Steinzaltz

Must A Jew Believe Anything, Menachem Kellner

Fate and Destiny, J. B. Soloveitchik

Halachik Man, J. B. Soloveitchik

Jewish Sociology:

Jew vs Jew, Samuel Freedman

Frumspeak, Chaim Weiser

Chevra V'Daat, Menachem Friedman

The Coming Cataclysm, Reuven Bulka

Judaism in Society, Jacob Neusner

Self Fulfilling Prophecy, Jacob Neusner

Sliding to the Right, Samuel Heilman

Contemporary Jewish Religious Thought, Mendes-Flohr