(For example, by his own standards, Webb would have to admit that
Hebrew dietary laws and economic laws were more restrictive than the surrounding culture.
It offers the standard
Hebrew text, a parallel English translation (edited by Chaim Potok, best known as the author of «The Chosen»), a page - by - page exegesis, periodic commentaries on Jewish practice and, at the end, 41 essays by prominent rabbis and scholars on topics ranging from the Torah scroll and
dietary laws to ecology and eschatology.