The Legends of the Jews - Hardcover

Ginzberg, Louis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0827603428 ISBN 13: 9780827603424

Publisher: Jewish Pubn Society, 1909

Synopsis

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jewish Pubn Society
• Publication date: 1909
• ISBN 10: 0827603428
• ISBN 13: 9780827603424
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English