The Legends of the Jews: From Moses to Esther: Notes for Volumes 3 and 4Never 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. |
Contents
Moses in the Wilderness Vol III pp 1481 | 1 |
Joshua Vol IV pp 117 | 169 |
Judges Vol IV pp 1954 | 181 |
Samuel and Saul Vol IV pp 5577 | 215 |
David Vol IV pp 79121 | 245 |
Solomon Vol IV pp 123176 | 277 |
Judah and Israel Vol IV pp 177191 | 304 |
Elijah Vol IV pp 193235 | 316 |
Elisha and Jonah Vol IV pp 237253 | 343 |
The Later Kings Vol IV pp 255287 | 353 |
The Exile Vol IV pp 289340 | 382 |
The Return of the Captivity Vol IV pp 341361 | 430 |
Esther Vol IV pp 363448 | 451 |
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