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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The very best on the theme. (7 books colection),
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This colection of seven books , is THE best documented reference book about Jewish culture Iv ever handled, Its a "mejaie"(in idish pleasure) to go trough those refferences, Rab Guinsberg was the husband of the famos Henrieta Zsold at which memory there is even streets named in Israel. Its HER wisdom thats stated in this books, and she new more than Raby's, but since she was a woman Ortodox was almost prohibited to shine at Her real capacity. I repeat Yhe most inteligible set of books about the theme,a must to any serious student of Jewdaism, outside of the Ishives jails
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