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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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the book is an excelent piece of scholarship
The book is an excelent piece of scholarship which exibits an extraordinary mastery of medieval literature. However, it contains some odd and inexplicable editorial errors especially in the Hebrew text which is often sensless. Nevertheless it is a unique and ground breaking work and is highly recomended. ... Read more

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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1873Original Publisher: Pub. for the Society of Hebrew LiteratureSubjects: BibleReligion / Biblical Studies / GeneralReligion / Biblical Commentary / Old TestamentReligion / Biblical Commentary / New TestamentReligion / Biblical Criticism ... Read more

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The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Publisher: London, Pub. for the Society of Hebrew Literature; Publication date: 1873; Subjects: Bible; Religion / Biblical Commentary / Old Testament; ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This Book Is In Latin And Others. ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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difficult but sometimes interesting
This commentary is radically unlike the typical Chumash you might pick up in a synagogue, or even the five-volume commentaries of Rashi and Ramban (also much more widely available than Ibn Ezra's work).While Rashi and congregational Chumashes focus on deriving broader meanings from the Torah's text, Ibn Ezra focuses like a laser beam on Hebrew grammar, trying to ascertain the text's plainest possible meaning,

On the negative side, this means that most of this book was over the head of readers who (like me) have limited understanding of Hebrew grammar- so I didn't get as much out of it as a more learned reader would.

But on the positive side, Ibn Ezra disdains fanciful interpretations that Midrashim and other commentators often employ- and when Ibn Ezra does speculate about nongrammatical issues, it makes sense and (at least in this translation) is sometimes well phrased.

To give one example: the Torah says that Leah's eyes were "weak" (Gen. 29:17).This phrase has summoned forth a variety of fanciful explanations (e.g. that Leah's eyes were weak from crying because of fear she might be destined to marry Esau). But Ibn Exra responds with verve: "Some ask, why were Leah's eyes weak?They raise this question because they believe God's thoughts are like their thoughts, and they think that all people have to be formed alike."In other words, some people are born with visual problems, and that's that. As someone whose paternal grandparents had "weak ears" (i.e. were very hard of hearing) I sympathize with Ibn Ezra's point of view.In response to another commentator who points out that if the letter alef had been added to the Hebrew word for weak (rakkkot) the meaning would change, Ibn Ezra responds that this commentator "was missing an alef."

Fantastic Work!
Ibn Ezra would have been very proud to know how his commentary has been translated. As a traveler, Ibn Ezra always had a fondness for England. At any rate, not only is the commentary clear and easy to read, the authors provide lucid footnotes which neatly explain how Ibn Ezra's ideas compare with the other great scholars of his time.

Let me suggest an improvement for a future edition:

Presentthe readers with a Hebrew text of the Pentateuch along with Ibn Ezra's commentary in a modern Hebrew font. Make sure the Hebrew text of Ibn Ezra has nikudot to make the text even more appealing to the eye. As a potential model, considerthe old Silverman edition of Rashi. A similiar work on Ibn Ezra would sell like hotcakes!

What a great job!
Thank you H. Norman Strickman!!

Rabbi Dr. Michael Samuel

A valuable addition to your Jewish book shelf
This book provides a valuable service to readers of the Hebrew Bible in that it makes Ibn Ezra's commentary comprehensible even to the non-scholar. The authors have based their work onscholarly interpretations of IbnEzra's sometimes telegraphic comments, which are often obscure in theiroriginal form. My main reservations concern the format of massivefoot-noting, and the use of English transliterations instead of Hebrew incases where the whole point of the commentary may be a fine distinction inspelling or vocalization of the Hebrew text. ... Read more

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Volume: 2Publisher: London, Pub. by N. TrübnerPublication date: 1873Subjects: BibleNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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Volume: 3Publisher: London, Pub. by N. TrübnerPublication date: 1873Subjects: BibleNotes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Glossary only and takes work to use
The Ibn Ezra commentary is an important part of Jewish tradition and provides an interesting counterpoint to Christian interpretations of the text.As there are precious few commentaries on Isaiah written by Jewish thinkers currently in print, this work takes on added importance.

This volume is an OCR reprint of the Ibn Ezra commentary.It does not really contain commentary proper, but rather the glossary to Ibn Ezra's commentary.

The main thing to know about this particular book is that it has a lot of flaws from the reprint.There's valuable information to be had in this book if you're willing to work at it.Interspersed with the definitions provided are many odd combinations of letters.It does require some patience and more than a little detective work to figure out what are references to pronunciation and what are OCR reprint flaws.I am familiar with transliterations from Hebrew, and this is not a transliteration - it is part of the OCR process.

The text ends at page 22, and from there till the end of the book (page 86) there are virtually no recognizable words, and even then they do not add to the functionality of the glossary.The text looks like gibberish which, apparently, is a major problem with OCR reprints.Typical of what you'll find is this sentence:

"pnw oyam, ir mian pi." (page 39).It fairly continues in that vein for the balance of the book.This is also what you have to find in between the readable/usable parts of the glossary section in the first 22 pages and why you'll need patience to work through the glossary.

If you are looking for completeness in the set, or have a patient temperament, buy this volume.Otherwise, you can probably get by without it. ... Read more