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Uniform Title Sefer ha-agadah. English.
Title The book of legends = Sefer ha-aggadah : legends from the Talmud and Midrash / edited by Hayim Nahman Bialik and Yehoshua Hana Ravnitzky ; translated by William G. Braude ; introduction by David Stern.

Imprint New York : Schocken Books, c1992.

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 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  296.14 BOOK    Check Shelf
Description xxii, 897 p. ; 29 cm.
Note Translation of: Sefer ha-agadah.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Subject Aggada -- Translations into English.
Midrash -- Translations into English.
Jewish legends.
Genre/Form Translations. (OCoLC)fst01423791
Subject Legends, Jewish.
Aggada. (OCoLC)fst00800216
Jewish legends. (OCoLC)fst01734579
Midrash. (OCoLC)fst01020601
Added Author Bialik, Hayyim Nahman, 1873-1934.
Rawnitzki, Yehoshua Ḥana, 1859-1944.
Braude, William G. (William Gordon), 1907-1988.
Added Title Sefer ha-aggadah.
ISBN 0805241132
9780805241136
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