Mikraot Gedolot

A page of a modern Mikraot Gedolot Chumash. The text is the block of large, bold letters; adjacent to it is the Targum Onkelos with Rashi's commentary below with the related supercommentary Siftei Chachamim adjacent. Nachmanides, Abraham ibn Ezra, and Obadiah ben Jacob Sforno are on the facing page; other commentaries and references are in the margins.
Vayikra – The Book of Leviticus, Warsaw edition,1860, title page
Book of Leviticus, Warsaw edition, 1860, Page 1

A Mikraot Gedolot (Hebrew: מקראות גדולות, lit.'Great Scriptures'), often called a "Rabbinic Bible" in English,[1] is an edition of the Hebrew Bible that generally includes three distinct elements:

Numerous editions of the Mikraot Gedolot have been and continue to be published.

  1. ^ Martin Sicker An introduction to Judaic thought and rabbinic literature 2007 Page 158 "Moreover, the so-called Rabbinic Bible, the Mikraot Gedolot ("Great Scriptures"), may have as many as ten different commentaries, and notes on the commentaries accompany the text, thus providing a range of possible interpretations of ..."

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