Your students can now explore the Bible as Jews have done for centuries - by pondering, personalizing, and wrestling with the text. Combining faithful but accessible translations with thematic connections between the narratives and student's daily lives, critical-thinking exercises, and a sense of wonder, The Explorer's Bible will help you transform your classroom into a lively Bible study group.

What's New About The Explorer's Bible?

• True-to-text translation retains the structure and tone of the Hebrew while providing students with comprehensible and age-appropriate language.
• Opportunities for students to participate in biblical dialogue by reviewing classic interpretations of text and creating midrashim of their own.
• Connections between text and core Jewish values help students to personalize the Bible's lessons.
• Analyses of key Hebrew words and phrases allow students to connect intimately with biblical text.
• Contemporary design conveys the dignity of biblical text while engaging students with lush illustrations and more than fifty full-color photographs.
• Explanatory notes and connections to biblical archaeology bringing the text to life for students.

Contents:

• The Birth of the World
• Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden
• My Brother's Keeper (Cain and Abel)
• The Man Who Walked with God (Noah)
• The Impossible Tower (Tower of Babel)
• Abraham Finds His Way
• Abraham Speaks Up (Sodom and Gomorrah)
• The Sacrifice (The Akedah)
• Rebecca's Kindness
• Twins, Tricks, and Trouble (Jacob and Esau)
• Jacob's Discovery (Jacob, Rachel, and Leah)
• Jacob's Struggle (Jacob wrestles)
• The Dreamer (Joseph)
• Joseph's Gift
• Joseph's Forgiveness
• Baby Moses
• Moses Stands Before God
• Freedom and the Future (Plagues and the Exodus)