The Legends of the Jews

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(Boston Book Review, December 1998) . Nothing better illustrates the odd intimacy of the Bible and interpretation than Legends of the Jews, a seven volume set of biblical interpretations that was compiled by the famous Judaic scholar Louis Ginzburg nine decades ago, and that remains unsurpassed and indispensable today

Louis Ginzberg was born in Kovno (now Kaunas), Lithuania, in 1873. 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 immigrated to America in 1899 and became a renowned Judaic scholar. He began his university studies

"illuminating" according to Nancyhua. I've always found many parts of the Bible puzzling yet strangely ignored by my Sunday school teachers. Who were the angels that mated with the daughters of man? What were the monstrous animals that tried to enter the ark? Why did God test Abraham and Isaac in this way? Why did Rachel steal the idols from her father? Why did an angel wrestle with Jacob and then bless him? In this work, Jewish scholar and Rabbi Ginzberg adds color that addresses many of these questions.Almost an encyclopedia of information from the body of Biblical writings, Ginzberg relates many fascinating, apocryphal stories, mentionin. Israel Drazin said This is an important work, indeed a masterpiece. This is an important work, with this volume being only the beginning of the half dozen books in the series. Ginzberg points out that the tales that he collected were not invented in the synagogue, but by the people who wanted to see the biblical stories in a miraculous manner. The stories show God’s involvement in human affair and magnifies the heroic efforts of biblical characters. Maimonides (11This is an important work, indeed a masterpiece This is an important work, with this volume being only the beginning of the half dozen books in the series. Ginzberg points out that the tales that he collected were not invented in the synagogue, but by the people who wanted to see the biblical stories in a miraculous manner. The stories show God’s involvement in human affair and magnifies the heroic efforts of biblical characters. Maimonides (1138-120This is an important work, indeed a masterpiece Israel Drazin This is an important work, with this volume being only the beginning of the half dozen books in the series. Ginzberg points out that the tales that he collected were not invented in the synagogue, but by the people who wanted to see the biblical stories in a miraculous manner. The stories show God’s involvement in human affair and magnifies the heroic efforts of biblical characters. Maimonides (1138-1204) pointed out in his work called Chelek that anyone who accepts Midrashim, legends, as being true is a fool. So too anyone who dismisses them because they are untrue is also a fool, because the rab. ) pointed out in his work called Chelek that anyone who accepts Midrashim, legends, as being true is a fool. So too anyone who dismisses them because they are untrue is also a fool, because the rab. 8-1"This is an important work, indeed a masterpiece" according to Israel Drazin. This is an important work, with this volume being only the beginning of the half dozen books in the series. Ginzberg points out that the tales that he collected were not invented in the synagogue, but by the people who wanted to see the biblical stories in a miraculous manner. The stories show God’s involvement in human affair and magnifies the heroic efforts of biblical characters. Maimonides (11This is an important work, indeed a masterpiece This is an important work, with this volume being only the beginning of the half dozen books in the series. Ginzberg points out that the tales that he collected were not invented in the synagogue, but by the people who wanted to see the biblical stories in a miraculous manner. The stories show God’s involvement in human affair and magnifies the heroic efforts of biblical characters. Maimonides (1138-120This is an important work, indeed a masterpiece Israel Drazin This is an important work, with this volume being only the beginning of the half dozen books in the series. Ginzberg points out that the tales that he collected were not invented in the synagogue, but by the people who wanted to see the biblical stories in a miraculous manner. The stories show God’s involvement in human affair and magnifies the heroic efforts of biblical characters. Maimonides (1138-1204) pointed out in his work called Chelek that anyone who accepts Midrashim, legends, as being true is a fool. So too anyone who dismisses them because they are untrue is also a fool, because the rab. ) pointed out in his work called Chelek that anyone who accepts Midrashim, legends, as being true is a fool. So too anyone who dismisses them because they are untrue is also a fool, because the rab. 8-120This is an important work, indeed a masterpiece Israel Drazin This is an important work, with this volume being only the beginning of the half dozen books in the series. Ginzberg points out that the tales that he collected were not invented in the synagogue, but by the people who wanted to see the biblical stories in a miraculous manner. The stories show God’s involvement in human affair and magnifies the heroic efforts of biblical characters. Maimonides (1138-1204) pointed out in his work called Chelek that anyone who accepts Midrashim, legends, as being true is a fool. So too anyone who dismisses them because they are untrue is also a fool, because the rab. ) pointed out in his work called Chelek that anyone who accepts Midrashim, legends, as being true is a fool. So too anyone who dismisses them because they are untrue is also a fool, because the rab. 0This is an important work, indeed a masterpiece Israel Drazin This is an important work, with this volume being only the beginning of the half dozen books in the series. Ginzberg points out that the tales that he collected were not invented in the synagogue, but by the people who wanted to see the biblical stories in a miraculous manner. The stories show God’s involvement in human affair and magnifies the heroic efforts of biblical characters. Maimonides (1138-1204) pointed out in his work called Chelek that anyone who accepts Midrashim, legends, as being true is a fool. So too anyone who dismisses them because they are untrue is also a fool, because the rab. ) pointed out in his work called Chelek that anyone who accepts Midrashim, legends, as being true is a fool. So too anyone who dismisses them because they are untrue is also a fool, because the rab. "Biblical Student" according to Dr. Neil Lewenta. 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 addi