The Legends of the Jews

Nonfiction, History, Middle East, Israel, Jewish, Ancient History
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Author: Louis Ginzberg ISBN: 9781619823839
Publisher: Charles River Editors Publication: February 1, 2012
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Louis Ginzberg
ISBN: 9781619823839
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Publication: February 1, 2012
Imprint:
Language: English
Rabbi Louis Ginzberg was a Talmudist and leading figure in the Conservative Movement of Judaism of the twentieth century. He was born on November 28, 1873, in Kovno, Lithuania; he died on November 11, 1953, in New York City. Ginzberg was born into a religious family whose piety and erudition was well known. The family traced its lineage back to the legendary Gaon of Vilna. In his own mind, Ginzberg emulated the Vilna Gaons intermingling of academic knowledge in Torah studies under the label historical Judaism. In his book "Students, Scholars and Saints", Ginzberg quotes the Vilna Gaon instructing, Do not regard the views of the Shulchan Aruch as binding if you think that they are not in agreement with those of the Talmud. Legends of the Jews is an original synthesis of a vast amount of aggadah from all of classical rabbinic literature, as well as apocryphal, pseudopigraphical and even early Christian literature, with legends ranging from the creation of the world and the fall of Adam, through a huge collection of legends on Moses, and ending with the story of Esther and the Jews in Persia. Ginzberg had an encyclopedic knowledge of all rabbinic literature, and his masterwork included a massive array of aggadot. However he did not create an anthology which showed these aggadot distinctly. Rather, he paraphrased them and rewrote them into one continuous narrative that covered four volumes, followed by two volumes of footnotes that give specific sources. Louis Ginzberg created these works in 1909.
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Rabbi Louis Ginzberg was a Talmudist and leading figure in the Conservative Movement of Judaism of the twentieth century. He was born on November 28, 1873, in Kovno, Lithuania; he died on November 11, 1953, in New York City. Ginzberg was born into a religious family whose piety and erudition was well known. The family traced its lineage back to the legendary Gaon of Vilna. In his own mind, Ginzberg emulated the Vilna Gaons intermingling of academic knowledge in Torah studies under the label historical Judaism. In his book "Students, Scholars and Saints", Ginzberg quotes the Vilna Gaon instructing, Do not regard the views of the Shulchan Aruch as binding if you think that they are not in agreement with those of the Talmud. Legends of the Jews is an original synthesis of a vast amount of aggadah from all of classical rabbinic literature, as well as apocryphal, pseudopigraphical and even early Christian literature, with legends ranging from the creation of the world and the fall of Adam, through a huge collection of legends on Moses, and ending with the story of Esther and the Jews in Persia. Ginzberg had an encyclopedic knowledge of all rabbinic literature, and his masterwork included a massive array of aggadot. However he did not create an anthology which showed these aggadot distinctly. Rather, he paraphrased them and rewrote them into one continuous narrative that covered four volumes, followed by two volumes of footnotes that give specific sources. Louis Ginzberg created these works in 1909.

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