Optional recommended summer reading:

1. Who Wrote the Bible, Richard Elliot Friedman
2. As a Driven Leaf, Milton Steinberg

Required reading for your Bible class:

1. Who Wrote the Bible, Richard Elliot Friedman

Required reading for your Rabbinics class:

1. Back to the Sources, Barry Holtz (Simon and Schuster)
2. From Text to Tradition, Lawrence Schiffman (Ktav)
3. Texts and Traditions:, A Source Reader, Lawrence Schiffman (Ktav)

In addition to the books listed above, the Me’ah program also requires that all students own a text that provides basic background for the entire two-year cycle of Me’ah classes. This text is: The Jewish Study Bible, by Adele Berlin, Marc Brettler, and Michael Fishbane (Oxford University Press). We feel that this text is an invaluable resource for Me’ah students.

The above books may be purchased at any of the following places.

1. The Israel Book Shop, Inc., 410 Harvard Street in Brookline
Contact person is Edie Dovek, 617-566-7113 or 617-566-8255.

2. Kolbo Fine Judaica, 437 Harvard Street, Brookline,
800-238-8743, 617-731-8743.

3. Various internet booksellers, such as www.amazon.com