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Jewish Studies

Sacred Books

Internet Sacred Text Archive: Religious texts made freely available for scholarship purposes.

Jewish Study Bible: Tanakh Edition.  "First published in 2004, The Jewish Study Bible is a landmark, one-volume resource tailored especially for the needs of students of the Hebrew Bible. It has won acclaim from readers in all religious traditions.The Jewish Study Bible...combines the entire Hebrew Bible--in the celebrated Jewish Publication Society TANAKH Translation--with explanatory notes, introductory materials, and essays by leading biblical scholars on virtually every aspect of the text, the world in which it was written, its interpretation, and its role in Jewish life."

Mechon Mamre. E-access to the Bible in Hebrew and English, Mishne Torah in Hebrew and English, Mishna, Tosefta, Talmud Bavli, Talmud Yerushalmi, Targum Onqelos, and Tiqqun Qore'im. Search engines are provided for each.

New Oxford Annotated Bible: New Revised Standard Version, an Ecumenical Study Bible.  "This fifth edition of the Annotated remains the best way to study and understand the Bible at home or in the classroom. This thoroughly revised and substantially updated edition contains the best scholarship informed by recent discoveries and anchored in the solid Study Bible tradition."

https://www.sefaria.org/texts. Sefaria is a non-profit organization that provides access to a "free living library of Jewish texts and their interconnections, in Hebrew and in translation."


Hebrew Bible (Tanakh)

Torah

Talmud (Gemara or Shas: a record of rabbinic discussions pertaining to Jewish law, ethics, customs and history)