The notes for Volumes One and Two tell where legends appear and reappear, where versions differ and where they contradict each other. When legends have been the subject of learned interpretation or debate, Ginzberg provides guidance to the commentaries and disputants; when the legends are part of a larger controversy, he provides context.
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.
(Boston Book Review, December 1998 )
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This review is from: The Legends of the Jews: From the Creation to Exodus: Notes for Volumes 1 and 2 (Volume 5) (Paperback)
This series has 7 volumes. The first four have the actual legends. If you are interested in Jewish legends get the first four. Volumes 5 and 6 are footnotes for the first four and volume 7 is an index for the first four. If you are into serious study then you will want the last 3 volumes.
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