Author: Louis Ginzberg
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801858932
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Never Before Available in Paperback, Louis Ginzberg's landmark seven-volume The Legends of the Jews assembles the many elaborations and embellishments of Biblical stories that flourished in the centuries following the Bible's own creation. Ginzberg devoted most of his life to gathering these legends from their original sources - written in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Syrian, Aramaic, Ethiopic, Arabic, Persian, and Old Slavic - and reproducing them completely, accurately, and vividly. He presents them in their traditional Biblical sequence and reconciles the sometimes contradictory versions of the same stories found in different sources. In addition to four volumes of the legends themselves, The Legends of the Jews includes two indispensable volumes of notes, which provide the sources for every legend, as well as a comprehensive index to the people, places, and motifs found in the legends and their sources.
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ISBN: 9781021673268
Category : History
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Author: Louis Ginzberg
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Category : Jewish legends
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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Author: Louis Ginzberg
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Category : Jewish legends
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Publisher: Sagwan Press
ISBN: 9781376834772
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Author: Louis Ginzberg
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Category : Jewish legends
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Author: Louis Ginzberg
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Category : Jewish legends
Languages : en
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Author: Louis Ginzberg
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1596054549
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 457
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Absalom was of such gigantic proportions that a man who was himself of extraordinary size, standing in the eye-socket of his skull, sank in down to his nose. As for his marvellous hair, the account of it in the Bible does not convey a notion of its abundance. Absalom had taken the vow of a Nazarite. As his vow was for life, and because the growth of his hair was particularly heavy, the law permitted him to clip it slightly every week. It was of this small quantity that the weight amounted to two hundred shekels. -from "Absalom's Rebellion" The masterpiece of one of the preeminent Talmudic scholars of the 20th century, the multivolume Legends of the Jews gathers together stories from the Talmud, the Midrash, the Bible, and oral traditions-also known as the Haggada-and offers them in chronological order. Volume IV, first published in 1913, features tales of Joshua, Boaz and Ruth, Samuel and Saul, David, Solomon, Judah and Israel, Elijah, Esther, and more. A work of brilliant erudition and deep devotion, this is an invaluable collection of religious lore. American rabbi LOUIS GINZBERG (1873-1953) founded the American Academy of Jewish Research and was a prolific contributor to the Jewish Encyclopedia.
Author: Louis Ginzberg
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Category : Aggada
Languages : en
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Author: Louis Ginzberg
Publisher: Good Press
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1223
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The Legends of the Jews is a chronological compilation of aggadah from hundreds of biblical legends in Mishnah, Talmud and Midrash. The compilation is synthesized by Louis Ginzberg, a Rabbi and a Talmudist. The narrative is divided into four main volumes, Volume I covering the period from the Creation to Jacob; Volume II covering the period from Joseph to the Exodus; Volume III covering the period from the Exodus to the death of Moses; and Volume IV covering the period from Joshua to Esther.
