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The Sefaria Library: Jewish Texts Online

February 8, 2017February 8, 2017 Deane Commentary, Early Jewish writings, Early Rabbinic writings, Hebrew Bible, Sources Jewish texts, Sefaria, Sefaria Library

The Sefaria Library is a developing online collection of Jewish texts, in Hebrew/Aramiac and English translation (in progress).

Thus far, Sefaria includes the following:

The Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) and Targums (English in Tanakh)
The Mishnah (with English)
The Talmud (English in Babylonian/Bavli)
Midrash
Halakhah

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  - 2-4 Baruch (3)
  - Assumption of Moses (2)
  - Daniel (7)
  - Dead Sea Scrolls Apocalyptic texts (19)
  - History of the Rechabites (1)
  - Jewish Testaments (2)
  - Revelation (11)
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- Church Fathers (6)
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- Josephus (7)
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- Liturgical and Poetic books (18)
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  - Psalms (3)
  - Psalms of Solomon (2)
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- Magical texts (1)
- Marcion (2)
- Philo (2)
- Prophets (17)
  - 12 Minor Prophets (6)
  - Ezekiel (1)
  - Isaiah (3)
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- Rabbinic writings (11)
  - 3 Enoch (1)
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- Biblical Studies – Disciplinary History (9)
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- Canon (15)
- Christian Origins (13)
- Death, Afterlife, Eschatology (18)
  - Apocalyptic (10)
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  - Judgment (1)
- Divine mediators (angels demons etc) (9)
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- God (25)
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- Israel and Judah (30)
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- Mysticism (1)
- Paul (30)
- Politics and Economy (1)
- Primeval History (7)
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- Prophecy and Prophets (7)
  - Christian Prophecy (3)
  - Jewish Prophecy (3)
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- Soteriology (salvation) (16)
  - Atonement (3)
  - Election (1)
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- Theology (1)
Historical and Literary Contexts (84)
- Anatolia (3)
  - Hittite texts (1)
- Ancient Egypt (4)
- Ancient Israel and Judea (51)
  - Archaeology (15)
  - Emergence of "Israel" (5)
  - Geography (2)
  - Historicity of Ancient Israel and Judea (17)
  - Persian Yehud (7)
  - Syro-Palestinian texts (15)
    - Dead Sea Scrolls (12)
    - Ugaritic texts (2)
- Ancient Mediterranean (9)
- Ancient Near East (13)
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    - Gilgamesh (1)
  - Ancient Persian texts (1)
- Ancient Syria-Palestine (7)
- Greek and Roman (29)
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- Philistines (6)
- Phoenicians (1)
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- Aramaic, Syriac (6)
- Canaanite / Proto-Hebrew (1)
- Coptic (3)
- Edomite (1)
- Egyptian (1)
- Fonts (1)
- Greek (1)
- Hebrew (4)
- Literacy (2)
- Moabite (1)
- Persian (1)
- Phoenician and Punic (1)
- Ugaritic (1)
Methods and Approaches in Biblical Studies (144)
- Canonical Criticism (1)
- Cultural Memory (13)
- Disability Studies (1)
- Form, Oral, and Tradition Criticism (10)
- Historical Criticism (15)
- Ideological Criticisms (62)
  - Antisemitism (8)
  - Area Studies (1)
  - Ecological Criticism (1)
  - Economic, Marxist Criticism (19)
  - Feminist, Gender, Queer Criticisms (25)
  - Human-Animal Studies (2)
  - Race, Postcolonial Criticism (19)
- Inner-biblical Interpretation, Rewritten Bible, Intertextuality (9)
- Literary Criticism, New Criticism (4)
- Narrative Criticism (1)
- Reader Response Criticism (1)
- Rhetorical Criticism (1)
- Social Scientific Criticism (12)
- Source and Redaction Criticism (13)
  - Pentateuchal (2)
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- Textual Criticism (19)
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- Politics (41)
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- Race Postcolonial (20)
  - Anti-Semitism (7)
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  - Church Fathers (3)
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  - Dead Sea Scrolls (1)
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  - Early Rabbinic writings (4)
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  - Hebrew Bible (4)
  - Inscriptions (1)
  - Josephus (3)
  - Letters (1)
  - Liturgical (1)
  - Philo (1)
- Modern Bible Translations (1)
- Secondary (470)
  - Audio (121)
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  - Journal Articles Papers Chapters (12)
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- Academic webpages (8)
- Academics – interviews (6)
- Book Reviews (6)
- Institutions (5)
- Online Courses (32)
  - Online courses – Early Christianity / New Testament (14)
  - Online courses – Early Judaism / Old Testament – Hebrew Bible (15)
- Online Theses (PhD etc) (2)
- Student Guides (1)

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