The Legends of the Jews
by Louis Ginzberg
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To this day Legends of the Jews remains a most remarkable and comprehensive compilation of stories connected to the Hebrew Bible. It is an indispensable reference on that body of literature known as Midrash, the imaginative retelling and elaboration on Bible stories in which mythological tales about demons and magic co-exist with moralistic stories about the piety of the patriarchs.Tags
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The Legends of the Jews, found in the Mishnah, Talmud, and Midrash, is a chronological compilation of Aggadah from many biblical narratives. The collection was put together by Louis Ginzberg in a German-language manuscript. Volume I covers the time from Creation to Jacob, Volume II covers the time from Joseph to the Exodus, Volume III covers the time from the Exodus to the death of Moses, and Volume IV covers the time from Joshua to Esther. The story is divided into four main volumes.
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The Legends of the Jews, found in the Mishnah, Talmud, and Midrash, is a chronological compilation of Aggadah from many biblical narratives. The collection was put together by Louis Ginzberg in a German-language manuscript. Volume I covers the time from Creation to Jacob, Volume II covers the time from Joseph to the Exodus, Volume III covers the time from the Exodus to the death of Moses, and Volume IV covers the time from Joshua to Esther. The story is divided into four main volumes.
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Louis Ginzberg was born in Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania, in 1873. He began his university studies in mathematics but eventually turned to the study of religion. His doctoral dissertation, which documented the survival of various Jewish elaborations of the Bible in the writings of the Church Fathers, prefigured his later work. He emigrated to show more America in 1899 and became a renowned Judaic scholar. He died in New York City in 1953. show less
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