The book of legends = Sefer ha-aggadah : legends from the Talmud and Midrash /

One of the best-loved anthologies of rabbinic lore has been compiled by Hebrew poet laureate Hayim Nahman Bialik and noted Hebrew editor and publisher Yehoshua Hana Ravnitzky and translated from the Hebrew by William G. Braude. Offers a wide spectrum of Jewish literary inventiveness on a variety of...

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Main Author: Bialik, Hayyim Nahman, 1873-1934 (Author)
Other Authors: Braude, William G (William Gordon), 1907-1988 (Translator), Rawnitzki, Yehoshua Ḥana, 1859-1944, Rawnitzki, Yehoshua Ḥana, 1859-1944 (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Hebrew
Published: New York : Schocken Books, c1992
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300 |a xxii, 897 p. ;  |c 29 cm 
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500 |a "Originally published in Hebrew in Odessa, 1908-1911..." -- T.p. verso 
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505 0 |a Proem -- The work of creation and the first generations -- The deeds of the fathers -- Israel in Egypt and the departure from Egypt -- Israel in the wilderness -- Judges, kings, and prophets -- The destruction of the First Temple -- The era between the First and Second Temples -- The Second Temple: its structure and its services -- The destruction of the Second Temple and of the land -- The deeds of the sages -- Israel and the nations of the world -- The land of Israel -- Language -- Exile -- Redemption and the days of the Messiah -- In the time-to-come -- Torah -- Wisdom, prophecy, and song -- Sabbath, feasts, and fasts -- The Holy One, blessed be He, and relations between human beings and Him who is everywhere -- Good and evil -- Man and his needs -- A man's household -- Between man and man -- Traits and attitudes -- The community, the state and their requirements -- The world and all that it holds -- Matters pertaining to divination and healing -- Parables, proverbs, and sayings -- A miscellany 
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