The Legends of the Jews: From Moses to Esther: Notes for Volumes 3 and 4

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JHU Press, May 13, 1998 - Religion - 504 pages
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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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
List of Abbreviations of Titles of Books
483
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