Save on both of CCAR Press's resources for studying haftarah in this discounted bundle. The classic full-text Hebrew, translation, and commentary in The Haftarah Commentary is paired with contemporary commentaries and new haftarot in Prophetic Voices. Taken together, they are the perfect resource for delving deeper into the Jewish Bible.
The Haftarah Commentary is a comprehensive translation of the weekly selections from the Prophets and Writings, complete with meticulously cantillated Hebrew text, commentary, translations, essays, gleanings from sources modern and ancient, notes, glossary, bibliography, and additional selections for use as alternatives to the traditional haftarot.
Prophetic Voices gives new life to the ancient prophetic texts. A diverse group of contributors--including rabbis, cantors, scholars, educators, activists, and poets--provide short commentaries on each haftarah, demonstrating their profound relevance to the present. Going beyond the Prophets, Prophetic Voices also presents alternative readings from Jewish texts biblical to contemporary. New haftarot for each Shabbat and holiday are included, plus haftarot for the Jewish American calendar, from Yom HaShoah to Pride Month to Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Prophetic Voices boldly invites us to rethink the haftarah canon.
Rabbi Barbara AB Symons graduated from the University of Michigan and was ordained by Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 1994. Since 2006, she has been serving Temple David in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, just outside of Pittsburgh. She is deeply involved in the interfaith community primarily through her work with the Monroeville Interfaith Ministerium—of which she is past president—and through the Catholic Jewish Education Enrichment program. Engaged with the local community, Rabbi Symons has served as president of the hospital’s clergy board and rabbinic groups, and she is active with the town council, school board, and library. Barbara met her husband Rabbi Ron Symons during their first week in Jerusalem at Hebrew Union College; she is daily and deeply proud of, and inspired by, him and their three children, all of whom are not only committed Jews but learned, creative Jewish professionals. Rabbi Symons is the editor of CCAR Press's Prophetic Voices: Renewing and Reimagining Haftarah(2023). She is thrilled to have even a small part in raising up prophetic voices through the many diverse voices included in this book.
