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 ...
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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 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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Add this copy of Legends of the Jews-7 Complete Set to cart. $199.95, good condition, Sold by House of Thoth rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Magna, UT, UNITED STATES, published 1968 by Jewish Publication Society of America.
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Good. Bindings are intact; pages are clean with no markings, underlinings, etc. The covers, as to be expected, are worn with age and shelf wear. 7 volume set. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. Audience: General/trade. These volumes are from different impressions between 1968-1980. Vol. 7 does not show any impression or printing date, only the copyright date of 1938. There is an oddity in Vol. 5, which is the index volume for Vols. 1 & 2; the cover is upside down. This does not affect the use of the book; the reader must simply turn it upside down when consulting it.
