The Legends of the Jews, Volume 1

About this eBook

Author

Ginzberg, Louis, 1873-1953

Title

The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1

Credits

Charles Keller

Language

English

LoC Class

BM: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Judaism

Subject

Aggada -- Translations into English

Category

Text

eBook-No.

1493

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1493

Release Date

October 1, 1998

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.The Legends of the Jews — by Louis Ginzberg — TRANSLATED PROM THE GERMAN MANUSCRIPT BY HENRIETTA SZOLD — VOLUME I BIBLE TIMES AND CHARACTERS FROM THE CREATION TO JACOB
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.Contents
4. 4.PREFACE
5. 5.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
6. 6.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
7. 7.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
8. 8.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
9. 9.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
10. 10.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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