Guide to the Abraham Rutner Typescript Notes and Ephemera on the Bible
1950s-1990s

About This Guide

Finding aid encoded October, 2009

Finding aid encoded in English.

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of materials created and compiled by Abraham Rutner pertaining to each section of the Pentateuch. It also contains some general information on Biblical scholarship, as well as a list of abbreviations and notations used by Rutner.

Each section consists of a mixture of traditional and academic sources relating to the specific part of the Bible to which it pertains, interspersed with Rutner's own notes that are typed on the backs of fliers and other papers. There are articles from the journal Judaism and from the journal Tradition. There are articles from scholarly sources such as Biblical Archaeology Review relating archaelogy, history, and science to portions of the Bible. There are also articles written by traditional Orthodox rabbis, such as Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, and Rabbi Yehudah Amital, as well as some by rabbis of other denominations, such as Elliot Dorff and Neil Gillman. Also included in each section are clippings of works of art, photographs, and maps that relate to the subject matter and help illuminate a different angle of it.

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