The Jewish Publication Society Torah Commentary (Five Volumes):

• Genesis by Nahum Sarna (Philadelphia: JPS, 1989)
• Exodus by Nahum Sarna (Philadelphia: JPS, 1991)
• Leviticus by Baruch A. Levine (Philadelphia: JPS, 1989)
• Numbers by Jacob Milgrom (Philadelphia: JPS, 1989)
• Deuteronomy by Jeffrey Tigay (Philadelphia: JP, 1996)

The Five Books of Moses: A Translation With Commentary
By Robert Alter (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2004)

The Torah: A Women’s Commentary
Edited by Tamara Cohn Eskenazi and Andrea Weiss (New York: URJ Press, 2008)

A Torah Commentary for Our Times (Three Volumes)
By Harvey J. Fields (New York: UAHC Press, 1991)

The Five Books of Moses: A New Translation With
Introductions, Commentaries and Notes (The Schocken Bible)
By Everett Fox (New York: Schocken, 1995/2000)

Commentary on the Torah: With a New English Translation
By Richard Elliott Friedman (San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 2001)

Etz Chayim: Torah and Commentary
By David Lieber, sponsored by the Rabbinical Assembly
and the United Synagogue of Reform Judaism (Philadelphia: JPS, 2001)

Studies in Bereshit-Devarim (Six Volumes)
By Nechama Leibowitz (Jerusalem: World Zionist Organization, 1980)

The Torah: A Modern Commentary
By W. Gunther Plaut (New York: URJ Press, 1981/Revised 2005)

The Chumash: The Stone Edition (Artscroll Series)
By Nosson Scherman (Mesorah Publications, 1993)

The Contemporary Torah: A Gender-Sensitive Adaptation of the JPS Translation
Edited by David E.S. Stein (Philadelphia: JPS, 2006)

The 1985 JPS Translation: Tanakh
(Philadelphia: JPS, 1985)

The New Jerusalem Bible
(Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1985)

 

The Jewish Study Bible
Edited by Adele Berlin and Marc Brettler
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2004)
Commentary based on JPS Tanakh series; includes essays on history interpretation,
a glossary, tables for weights and measures, and a timeline.

The New Oxford Annotated Bible With the Apocrypha
Edited by Michael D. Coogan, Marc Z. Brettler, Carol A. Newsom and Pheme Perkins
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2007)

Anchor Bible Commentary
(Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company)

Anchor Bible Dictionary (Six Volumes)
(Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1992)

 

The JPS Miqr’ot Gedolot: Exodus
By Michael Carasik (Philadelphia: JPS, 2005)

Nachmanides [Ramban] Commentary on the Torah
Edited by Charles B. Chavel (New York: Shilo Publishing House, 1971-1976)
Translated and annotated with index

The Pentateuch and Rashi’s Commentary:
A Linear Translation Into English (Five Volumes)
Edited by Abraham Ben Isaiah and Benjamin Sharfman
(Brooklyn: S.S. and R. Publishing Company, 1949)

Rashi’s Torah Commentary:
Religious, Philosophical, Ethical and Educational Insights
Edited by Pinhas Doron (Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronon, 2000)

 

The Art of Biblical Narrative
By Robert Alter (New York: Basic Books, 1981)

How to Read the Jewish Bible
By Marc Zvi Brettler (Philadelphia: JPS, 2005)

Torah Through Time: Understanding Bible Commentary
From the Rabbinic Period to Modern Times
By Shai Cherry (Philadeophia: JPS, 2007)

The Bible With Sources Revealed
By Richard Elliot Friedman (HarperOne, 2003)

Studies in Bible and Feminist Criticism
By Tivka Frymer-Kensky (Philadelphia: JPS, 2006)

How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now
By James Kugel (New York: Free Press, 2007)

Traditions of the Bible: A Guide to the Bible
As It Was at the Start of the Common Era
By James Kugel (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998)

Reading the Women of the Bible
By Tikva Frymer-Kensky (New York: Schocken Books, 1986)

Exploring Exodus:: The Heritage of Biblical Israel
By Nahum Sarna (New York: Schocken Books, 1986)

 

The Beginning of Desire: Reflections on Genesis
By Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg (Image, 1996)

Exodus: New Cambridge Bible Commentary
By Carol Meyers (Cambridge University Press, 2005)

Leviticus: A Book of Ritual and Ethics
By Jacob Milgrom (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2004)

 

Parashat Hashavua: The Weekly Torah Portion
(New York: URJ Press, 2006)
A bar/bat mitzvah study guide featuring excerpts from W. Gunther Plaut’s revised commentary and Harvey Fields’ commentary; includes a list of resources for further study

Living Torah: Selections From Seven Years of Torat Chayim
Edited by Elaine Rose Glickman (New York: URJ Press, 2005)

The Women’s Torah Commentary:
New Insights From Women Rabbis on the 54 Weekly Torah Portions
By Elyse Goldstein (Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights Publishing, 2000)