Hebrew Bible: Sources and Commentaries

Bibles


JPS Hebrew-English Tanakh, 2nd Edition, JPS, 2003

The Jewish Study Bible, Adele Berlin and Marc Zvi Brettler, editors, 2nd Edition, Oxford University Press, 2014 (with JPS translation of Tanakh)

The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypa, 5th Edition, Oxford University Press, 2018 (NRSV translation)

The Harper Collins Study Bible, Revised, HarperOne, 2006 (NRSV translation)

Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible, a translation with commentary, Norton, 2019

Five Scrolls and Related


Da'at Mikra: Chamesh Megillot, Mossad HaRav Kook, Jerusalem, 1973 (Hebrew)

Five Megilloth and Jonah. With introductions by H. L. Ginsberg. JPS, 1974

Elias Bickerman, Four Strange Books of the Bible: Jonah, Daniel, Koheleth, Esther, Schoken, 1967

Rashi, Commentaries

Abraham ibn Ezra, Commentaries (for example: https://www.sefaria.org/Ibn_Ezra_on_Esther?tab=contents)

Malbim, Commentaries (for example:

https://www.sefaria.org/Malbim_on_Ruth?tab=contents)

Ecclesiastes / Kohelet


James L. Crenshaw, Ecclesiastes, Westminster, 1987

Choon-Leong Seow, The Anchor Bible: Ecclesiastes, 1997

Esther


Carey A. Moore, The Anchor Bible: Esther, Doubleday, 1971

Mary Joan Winn Leith, Commentary to Esther (and Commentary to Esther (The Greek Version Containing Additional Chapters) in the Apocrypha section), Oxford Study Bible

Adele Berlin, Commentary to Esther, Jewish Study Bible

Amos Hakham, Commentary to Esther, Da'at Mikra, Chamesh Megillot (Hebrew)

Jonah


Jack M. Sasson, The Anchor Bible: Jonah, ​​​​​​​Doubleday, 1990

Lamentations


Delbert R. Hillers, The Anchor Bible: Lamentations, Doubleday, 1972

Ruth


Tamara Cohn Eskenazi and Tikva Frymer-Kensky, The JPS Bible Commentary: Ruth, JPS, 2011

Song of Songs


Michael Fishbane, The JPS Bible Commentary: Song of Songs, JPS, 2015

Reference


John Bright, A History of Israel, Third Edition, Westminster Press, 1981 (A history of Biblical Israel)

H. H. Ben-Sasson, ed. A History of the Jewish People, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1976

John H. Hayes, An Introduction to Old Testament Study, Abingdon, 1979