The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1
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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 sourc...
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- The Legends of the Jews
- TRANSLATED PROM THE GERMAN MANUSCRIPT BY HENRIETTA SZOLD
- VOLUME I BIBLE TIMES AND CHARACTERS FROM THE CREATION TO JACOB
- PREFACE
- I THE CREATION OF THE WORLD
- THE FIRST THINGS CREATED
- THE ALPHABET
- THE FIRST DAY
- THE SECOND DAY
- THE THIRD DAY
- THE FOURTH DAY
- THE FIFTH DAY
- THE SIXTH DAY
- ALL THINGS PRAISE THE LORD
- II ADAM
- MAN AND THE WORLD
- THE ANGELS AND THE CREATION OF MAN
- THE CREATION OF ADAM
- THE SOUL OF MAN
- THE IDEAL MAN
- THE FALL OF SATAN
- WOMAN
- ADAM AND EVE IN PARADISE
- THE FALL OF MAN
- THE PUNISHMENT
- SABBATH IN HEAVEN
- ADAM'S REPENTANCE
- THE BOOK OF RAZIEL
- THE SICKNESS OF ADAM
- EVE'S STORY OF THE FALL
- THE DEATH OF ADAM
- THE DEATH OF EVE
- III THE TEN GENERATIONS
- THE BIRTH OF CAIN
- FRATRICIDE
- THE PUNISHMENT OF CAIN
- THE INHABITANTS OF THE SEVEN EARTHS
- THE DESCENDANTS OF CAIN
- THE DESCENDANTS OF ADAM AND LILITH
- SETH AND HIS DESCENDANTS
- ENOSH
- THE FALL OF THE ANGELS
- ENOCH, RULER AND TEACHER
- THE ASCENSION OF ENOCH
- THE TRANSLATION OF ENOCH
- METHUSELAH
- IV NOAH
- THE BIRTH OF NOAH
- THE PUNISHMENT OF THE FALLEN ANGELS
- THE GENERATION OF THE DELUGE
- THE HOLY BOOK
- THE INMATES OF THE ARK
- THE FLOOD
- NOAH LEAVES THE ARK
- THE CURSE OF DRUNKENNESS
- NOAH'S DESCENDANTS SPREAD ABROAD
- THE DEPRAVITY OF MANKIND
- NIMROD
- THE TOWER OF BABEL
- V ABRAHAM
- THE WICKED GENERATIONS
- THE BIRTH OF ABRAHAM
- THE BABE PROCLAIMS GOD
- ABRAHAM'S FIRST APPEARANCE IN PUBLIC
- THE PREACHER OF THE TRUE FAITH
- IN THE FIERY FURNACE
- ABRAHAM EMIGRATES TO HARAN
- THE STAR IN THE EAST
- THE TRUE BELIEVER
- THE ICONOCLAST
- ABRAHAM IN CANAAN
- HIS SOJOURN IN EGYPT
- THE FIRST PHARAOH
- THE WAR OF THE KINGS
- THE COVENANT OF THE PIECES
- THE BIRTH OF ISHMAEL
- THE VISIT OF THE ANGELS
- THE CITIES OF SIN
- ABRAHAM PLEADS FOR THE SINNERS
- THE DESTRUCTION OF THE SINFUL CITIES
- AMONG THE PHILISTINES
- THE BIRTH OF ISAAC
- ISHMAEL CAST OFF
- THE TWO WIVES OF ISHMAEL
- THE COVENANT WITH ABIMELECH
- SATAN ACCUSES ABRAHAM
- THE JOURNEY TO MORIAH
- THE 'AKEDAH
- THE DEATH AND BURIAL OF SARAH
- ELIEZER'S MISSION
- THE WOOING OF REBEKAH
- THE LAST YEARS OF ABRAHAM
- A HERALD OF DEATH
- ABRAHAM VIEWS EARTH AND HEAVEN
- THE PATRON OF HEBRON
- VI JACOB
- THE BIRTH OF ESAU AND JACOB
- THE FAVORITE OF ABRAHAM
- THE SALE OF THE BIRTHRIGHT
- ISAAC WITH THE PHILISTINES
- ISAAC BLESSES JACOB
- ESAU'S TRUE CHARACTER REVEALED
- JACOB LEAVES HIS FATHER'S HOUSE
- JACOB PURSUED BY ELIPHAZ AND ESAU
- THE DAY OF MIRACLES
- JACOB WITH LABAN
- THE MARRIAGE OF JACOB
- THE BIRTH OF JACOB'S CHILDREN
- JACOB FLEES BEFORE LABAN
- THE COVENANT WITH LABAN
- JACOB AND ESAU PREPARE TO MEET
- JACOB WRESTLES WITH THE ANGEL
- THE MEETING BETWEEN ESAU AND JACOB
- THE OUTRAGE AT SHECHEM
- A WAR FRUSTRATED
- THE WAR WITH THE NINEVITES
- THE WAR WITH THE AMORITES
- ISAAC BLESSES LEVI AND JUDAH
- JOY AND SORROW IN THE HOUSE OF JACOB
- ESAU'S CAMPAIGN AGAINST JACOB
- THE DESCENDANTS OF ESAU
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