“As a congregational rabbi I am always looking for new and innovative educational resources. The number one area of study in my community is the Hebrew Bible and especially the weekly Torah portion. The Tagged Tanakh creates the possibility of building communities of students around this core text study experience. I can imagine making the Tagged Tanakh a central part of bat and bar mitzvah preparation and a creative way to build the number of congregants comfortable creating their own divrei Torah. In my own work, the Tagged Tanakh would expand my ability to learn from a broad range of teachers, across denominational and academic boundaries. I can see the Tagged Tanakh moving us towards a new era in popular, collective, text study.”

“Regarding Moses Mendelssohn’s late 18th century translation of the Pentateuch and Book of Psalms into High German, the Jewish historian Amos Elon wrote that “beginning in antiquity, specific translations of the Bible [have] often been seminal in the history of Judaism—the early translations into Aramaic, the Septuagint (to serve the prominent Hellenistic Jewish population of Alexandria, and Saadiah Gaon’s translation into Arabic during the golden age of Jewish integration in Moorish Spain” (The Pity of it All, 2002, p.52).

The Tagged TaNaKh will represent a similar achievement. The reality is that in our new age, social networks are empowering individuals to determine their own hierarchies of influence, and those who recognize their potential will satisfy the next generation of thinkers and their projects. For the many Jews for whom the Torah remains a seminal text and for the educators who hope to convey its enduring significance, the Tagged TaNaKh represents the leadership of an important Jewish publishing house at a time when we can and must leverage the knowledge and perspective of many thoughtful individuals comprising the Am HaSefer, the People of the Book.”

“The Tagged Tanakh is a natural next step in the ongoing Jewish tradition of creative biblical exegesis. This is essentially what we have been doing for generations, revealing layers upon layers of interpretation and understanding. When Web 2.0 meets the Tanakh, the result should be a text that includes everyone and creates a shared sense of ownership and vision for the future.”

“The Tagged Tanakh is Jewish education at its most innovative—a pedagogical tool that understands not only the present needs of the first digital generation, but the future needs of our community. Based upon the foundations that the Tagged Tanakh can provide, our educators will be able to build the programs and curricula our people need to thrive in this new age.”

“The Tagged Tanakh enables anyone, from novice to scholar, to engage with the biblical text as an active learner and get into any number of areas in depth. The resources to explore range from the archaeological to the literary. The project has been expertly devised by very capable people. Enter, and you will surely be enthralled and enriched.”