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It's a must-read that every person, religious and non-religious, should buy and peruse every night before bed. It'll make you think harder, pray more ardently, and understand your civilization better." — Ben Shapiro, host of "The Ben Shapiro Show" "Dennis Prager’s commentary on Exodus will rank among the greatest modern Torah commentaries. That is how important I think it is. And I am clearly not alone... It might well be on its way to becoming the most widely read Torah commentary of our time—and by non-Jews as well as by Jews." — Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, bestselling author of Jewish Literacy Why do so many people think the Bible, the most influential book in world history, is outdated? Why do our friends and neighbors – and sometimes we ourselves – dismiss the Bible as irrelevant, irrational, immoral, or all of these things? This explanation of the Book of Exodus, the second book of the Bible, will demonstrate that the Bible is not only powerfully relevant to today’s issues, but completely consistent with rational thought. Do you think the Bible permitted the trans-Atlantic slave trade? You won’t after reading this book. Do you struggle to love your parents? If you do, you need this book. Do you doubt the existence of God because belief in God is “irrational?” This book will give you reason after reason to rethink your doubts. The title of this commentary is, “The Rational Bible” because its approach is entirely reason-based. The reader is never asked to accept anything on faith alone. As Prager says, “If something I write does not make rational sense, I have not done my job.” The Rational Bible is the fruit of Dennis Prager’s forty years of teaching the Bible to people of every faith, and no faith. On virtually every page, you will discover how the text relates to the contemporary world and to your life. His goal: to change your mind – and then change your life. Review: An insightful and approachable commentary - The Exodus is probably the most important story in Judaism, and certainly among the most important stories in Christianity as well. But while Prager writes for audiences of all faiths, his perspective is certainly the Jewish one. Prager’s argument (or at least one of his arguments) is that though the Torah (or the Bible at large) was written for specific people at a specific point in history, its relevance has not faded in modernity. Therefore, much of his commentary is aimed at translating certain verses in such a way as to render them comprehensible to modern ears or to applying the teachings of Exodus to modern situations. In those goals he succeeds admirably. Obviously, readers will come at this book from a variety of perspectives. There are certain passages atheists will struggle to understand even despite Prager’s best attempts to explain (atheists might argue explain away) some of the difficult passages. Christians will notice a lack of commentary pointing toward what they believe are foreshadowings of the New Testament. And though Prager’s Jewish commentary will feel most comfortable to the Jewish people, different movements within Judaism might agree or disagree on a variety of points. But where the book really shines, despite not quite succeeding in being all things to all people, is in rendering the text more approachable to modern readers. I’ve read Exodus before. I’ve read the entire Bible, of course. But even though the story is quite familiar to me, Prager nevertheless provided countless new insights that helped me to understand both much of the wisdom contained in the ancient text and why it is considered such a central element in Jewish culture. Long essays explain the Ten Commandments in great detail, and I think are a real highlight of this volume. Going back to the original Hebrew as necessary, Prager explains why he thinks those ten laws are so foundational to morality, as well as how many people—including many religious people—have misunderstood their meaning and misapplied their guidance. One might criticize the book for repetitiveness, but that’s not entirely Prager’s fault. Biblical texts themselves are often repetitive. Even still, Prager himself does repeat some of the same points multiple times. A few of these can be forgiven as repetition for emphasis, but in some cases, I think he added the same commentary to multiple verses simply because he had similar thoughts about each verse. If one wants to read this commentary as a reference book, that’s good; that way, the commentary is present at each verse whenever one might look it up. But if one wants to read it straight through, as I did, some of the repeated passages just felt extraneous. Nevertheless, I found this quite a useful book, and I’ll be first in line to get Prager’s commentary on Leviticus whenever it is released. Review: Maybe you thought the Torah lacked relevance to contemporary life - I am familiar with some of Rabbi Dennis Prager’s writing before coming to this book. Readers like me will find Exodus, like earlier works by this author, written in a style notable for its clarity and complete lack of pretension. It is a highly scholarly work that does not read like scholarship. One reason it does not read like an academic text is that it is also a highly personal work. Any reader encountering this book will see that it arises from a lifetime of one particular man’s contemplation of the Torah—its challenges, its rewards, its ever-expanding meaningfulness over the course of that lifetime. The book offers all of that to us as a gift to enrich our own lives. (As I read over the last two sentences written, I almost changed the word “arises” to the past tense, ”arose”—but I felt promptly that would be inappropriate. This book feels alive and exists in the present tense. One finishes each chapter with the feeling that the last word has not been said in the commentary one has just read. Let us all live a little longer, read the passage again, and Rabbi Prager would have more commentary to offer. This is just one of his accomplishments here—his book itself communicates the sense of the Torah as intensely alive and intensely relevant to us at all phases of our lives. The dialogue each reader has with the Torah may start at one specific place, but the conversation never ends. I will finish reading this book, set it aside and return to it in a few months… or years. When I do, I think I will find the book still arises….) More specifically: Rabbi Prager reads Exodus line by line, verse by verse and offers his commentary immediately as he does so. Commentary may not accompany every single line but often does; no group of verses lacks comment. Interspersed among the linear remarks are short (about 1-2 pages in length) passages the author identifies as Essays he uses to emphasize points, or to set the background for an upcoming passage, or to frame an argument. The commentary is frequently annotated with specific references to other works and authors. The text acknowledges and quotes directly from many previous Torah scholars. Why, any reader may reasonably ask, do we need another commentary on the Torah, on Exodus or any other of the five books of Moses? Our literature abounds with superb commentaries already. How could there be anything remaining to say about any line of the Torah? The facile answer is that there can never be too many commentaries on the Torah, that its plenty is inexhaustible. That may be true, but that is not the answer I want to offer on reading this book. What Rabbi Prager has done for me is to make Exodus relevant to contemporary life. His commentary is at various times refracted through ancient history and scholarship, through medieval times, through modern European history, up to the 20th century and the Holocaust, and through to the present day. He excels at drawing parallels between our times and the past as described in the Torah, and displays an uncanny ability to render our current moral and cultural dilemmas in Old Testament terms. This is why I feel the need specifically for this book at this time. I eagerly await his commentary on the rest of the Torah. One last point: In my opinion this book is readily understandable by younger readers. A high school student could benefit greatly from reading it. There is nothing ponderous here; there is no obstacle to understanding. Nothing in the prose commentary is stuffy or old fashioned. It appears that every effort has been made to allow the book to be accessible to the widest audience. George B. Goodman ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #75,271 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #13 in Torah #118 in Old Testament Bible Study (Books) #212 in Christian Church History (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 3,139 Reviews | ## Images ![The Rational Bible: Exodus - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81ytCydTSLL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An insightful and approachable commentary *by B***S on July 1, 2025* The Exodus is probably the most important story in Judaism, and certainly among the most important stories in Christianity as well. But while Prager writes for audiences of all faiths, his perspective is certainly the Jewish one. Prager’s argument (or at least one of his arguments) is that though the Torah (or the Bible at large) was written for specific people at a specific point in history, its relevance has not faded in modernity. Therefore, much of his commentary is aimed at translating certain verses in such a way as to render them comprehensible to modern ears or to applying the teachings of Exodus to modern situations. In those goals he succeeds admirably. Obviously, readers will come at this book from a variety of perspectives. There are certain passages atheists will struggle to understand even despite Prager’s best attempts to explain (atheists might argue explain away) some of the difficult passages. Christians will notice a lack of commentary pointing toward what they believe are foreshadowings of the New Testament. And though Prager’s Jewish commentary will feel most comfortable to the Jewish people, different movements within Judaism might agree or disagree on a variety of points. But where the book really shines, despite not quite succeeding in being all things to all people, is in rendering the text more approachable to modern readers. I’ve read Exodus before. I’ve read the entire Bible, of course. But even though the story is quite familiar to me, Prager nevertheless provided countless new insights that helped me to understand both much of the wisdom contained in the ancient text and why it is considered such a central element in Jewish culture. Long essays explain the Ten Commandments in great detail, and I think are a real highlight of this volume. Going back to the original Hebrew as necessary, Prager explains why he thinks those ten laws are so foundational to morality, as well as how many people—including many religious people—have misunderstood their meaning and misapplied their guidance. One might criticize the book for repetitiveness, but that’s not entirely Prager’s fault. Biblical texts themselves are often repetitive. Even still, Prager himself does repeat some of the same points multiple times. A few of these can be forgiven as repetition for emphasis, but in some cases, I think he added the same commentary to multiple verses simply because he had similar thoughts about each verse. If one wants to read this commentary as a reference book, that’s good; that way, the commentary is present at each verse whenever one might look it up. But if one wants to read it straight through, as I did, some of the repeated passages just felt extraneous. Nevertheless, I found this quite a useful book, and I’ll be first in line to get Prager’s commentary on Leviticus whenever it is released. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Maybe you thought the Torah lacked relevance to contemporary life *by G***N on May 2, 2018* I am familiar with some of Rabbi Dennis Prager’s writing before coming to this book. Readers like me will find Exodus, like earlier works by this author, written in a style notable for its clarity and complete lack of pretension. It is a highly scholarly work that does not read like scholarship. One reason it does not read like an academic text is that it is also a highly personal work. Any reader encountering this book will see that it arises from a lifetime of one particular man’s contemplation of the Torah—its challenges, its rewards, its ever-expanding meaningfulness over the course of that lifetime. The book offers all of that to us as a gift to enrich our own lives. (As I read over the last two sentences written, I almost changed the word “arises” to the past tense, ”arose”—but I felt promptly that would be inappropriate. This book feels alive and exists in the present tense. One finishes each chapter with the feeling that the last word has not been said in the commentary one has just read. Let us all live a little longer, read the passage again, and Rabbi Prager would have more commentary to offer. This is just one of his accomplishments here—his book itself communicates the sense of the Torah as intensely alive and intensely relevant to us at all phases of our lives. The dialogue each reader has with the Torah may start at one specific place, but the conversation never ends. I will finish reading this book, set it aside and return to it in a few months… or years. When I do, I think I will find the book still arises….) More specifically: Rabbi Prager reads Exodus line by line, verse by verse and offers his commentary immediately as he does so. Commentary may not accompany every single line but often does; no group of verses lacks comment. Interspersed among the linear remarks are short (about 1-2 pages in length) passages the author identifies as Essays he uses to emphasize points, or to set the background for an upcoming passage, or to frame an argument. The commentary is frequently annotated with specific references to other works and authors. The text acknowledges and quotes directly from many previous Torah scholars. Why, any reader may reasonably ask, do we need another commentary on the Torah, on Exodus or any other of the five books of Moses? Our literature abounds with superb commentaries already. How could there be anything remaining to say about any line of the Torah? The facile answer is that there can never be too many commentaries on the Torah, that its plenty is inexhaustible. That may be true, but that is not the answer I want to offer on reading this book. What Rabbi Prager has done for me is to make Exodus relevant to contemporary life. His commentary is at various times refracted through ancient history and scholarship, through medieval times, through modern European history, up to the 20th century and the Holocaust, and through to the present day. He excels at drawing parallels between our times and the past as described in the Torah, and displays an uncanny ability to render our current moral and cultural dilemmas in Old Testament terms. This is why I feel the need specifically for this book at this time. I eagerly await his commentary on the rest of the Torah. One last point: In my opinion this book is readily understandable by younger readers. A high school student could benefit greatly from reading it. There is nothing ponderous here; there is no obstacle to understanding. Nothing in the prose commentary is stuffy or old fashioned. It appears that every effort has been made to allow the book to be accessible to the widest audience. George B. Goodman ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A most excellent read. Well laid out. Speaks to Jews, Christians, and non-believers alike. *by M***S on September 8, 2018* (Never mind my name. It has nothing to do with this book or my review of it. It literally is my name.) This review comes from the perspective of a believing Christian. This book is very well written and can be read in a number of ways. You can read straight through to gain a deeper knowledge of the book of Exodus if that's what you're after. In doing so, you can read the Bible verses only, reading Dennis's comments only when you want to stop for insight from the perspective of my favorite Jew. The beginning is basically a topical index, giving you the gist of the major topics Dennis comments on in the chapters and the page numbers to find them. You can skim that for something that speaks to your soul instead of a straight read. For example, the first topic in the second chapter is "The preeminent role of women in Moses's life - and in the Torah." This comment is on the first verse of the chapter. He describes, preemptively, the roles of Moses's mother and sister, the midwives who defied the Pharaoh to save Moses, the Pharaoh's daughter, and on. Some of these comments are so in-depth, that they become essays and are listed as such. My favorite essay is in chapter 15. In the index, it says "Essay: Is it moral to celebrate the death of evildoers?" The essay pins the infinite worth of human souls against the horrific acts that these souls can do to each other. This is my favorite because I read it at a time in my life that I felt God open to me just how much our souls are worth and how loved each of us are even if we don't feel love for ourselves. Shortly after that, I learned of an unspeakable thing that happened to my neighbor's daughter. The contrast between worth and evil actions couldn't be more acute to me, and Dennis gives his insight on the matter here. The introduction is an informative read, telling us that while it's written from the perspective of a believing Jew, it's aimed at believing Christians as well and even to the non-believer who is open to rational thought on religious subjects. We don't even have to believe in God to believe that a grounding moral compass such as the Bible is good for society whether you actually believe in it or not. Take the Bible literally or figuratively, the teaching contained in it provide good direction. The format of the book is that he gives a verse (numbered) in bold text, left justified, followed by his comments in plain text, block indented about 3/4". Where he has the major topics listed in the index at the beginning of the book, they precede the relevant verst in large-print dark red text, making it super-easy to go from index to the text. The physical layout of the print makes it easy to separate the actual Bible verses, his comments on them, and the major topics covered easy to spot at a glance, so you can even thumb through the book quickly for whatever jups out at you. The end of the book, which he calls "Notes," is a bibliography of material he references. Out of curiosity, I've read other reviews that were critical of the book. These seem to come from people who are not verified buyers of the book and often seem to want to attack Dennis's character more than the book or from Christians who feel that this book attacks Christianity. I do not feel that Dennis attacks my religion as a Christian at all, but presents his thoughts on his own religion from a rational perspective and bears in mind that Christianity and Judaism share a lot in common. 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