Chapter Iii. Samuel And Saul : III. SAMUEL AND SAUL ELKANAH AND HANNAH The period of the Judges is linked to the period of the Kingdom by the prophet Samuel, who anointed both Saul and David as kings. Not only was Samuel himself a prophet, but his forebears also has been prophets, and both his parents, Elkanah and Hannah, were...
Chapter Iv : THE TWELVE PRINCES OF THE TRIBES God in His love for Israel had frequent censuses taken of them, so that He might accurately estimate His possession. In scarcely half a year they were twice counted, once shortly before the erection of the Tabernacle, and the second time a month after its dedicati...
Chapter Vi. Jacob : 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...
Next. Preface : CONTENTS PREFACE I. JOSEPH The Favorite Son Joseph Hated by His Brethren Joseph Cast into the Pit--The Sale--Joseph's Three Masters--Joseph's Coat Brought to His Father--Judah and His Sons--The Wives of the Sons of Jacob Joseph the Slave of Potiphar--Joseph and Zuleika Joseph Resists...
Chapter Vii. Elijah : VII. ELIJAH ELIJAH BEFORE HIS TRANSLATION The Biblical account of the prophet Elijah, of his life and work during the reigns of Ahab and his son Joram, gives but a faint idea of a personage whose history begins with Israel's sojourn in Egypt, and will end only when Israel, under the leadership...
Title Page. Part 1 : CONTENTS PREFACE 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. II. ADAM Man and the World--The Angels and the Creation of Man--The Creation of Adam...
Chapter Vi. Judah And Israel : VI. JUDAH AND ISRAEL THE DIVISION OF THE KINGDOM The division of the kingdom into Judah and Israel, which took place soon after the death of Solomon, had cast its shadow before. When Solomon, on the day after his marriage with the Egyptian princess, disturbed the regular course of the Temple...
Chapter Ii. Adam : 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...
Chapter Ii. The Sons Of Jacob : II THE SONS OF JACOB--SIGNIFICANT NAMES--REUBEN'S TESTAMENT--SIMON'S ADMONITION AGAINST ENVY--THE ASCENSION OF LEVI--JUDAH WARNS AGAINST GREED AND UNCHASTITY--ISSACHAR'S SINGLENESS OF HEART--ZEBULON EXHORTS UNTO COMPASSION--DAN'S CONFESSION--NAPHTALI'S DREAMS OF THE DIVISION OF THE TRIBES--GAD'S...
Chapter I. Joshua : I. JOSHUA THE SERVANT OF MOSES The early history of the first Jewish conqueror in some respects is like the early history of the first Jewish legislator. Moses was rescued from a watery grave, and raised at the court of Egypt. Joshua, in infancy, was swallowed by a whale, and, wonderful to relate...
Chapter V. Abraham : 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...
Title Page. Part 3 : THE LEGENDS OF THE JEWS BY LOUIS GINZBERG TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN MANUSCRIPT BY HENRIETTA SZOLD VOLUME I BIBLE TIMES AND CHARACTERS FROM THE CREATION TO JACOB TO MY BROTHER ASHER
Chapter I. Joseph : I JOSEPH--THE FAVORITE SON--JOSEPH HATED BY HIS BRETHREN--JOSEPH CAST INTO THE PIT--THE SALE--JOSEPH'S THREE MASTERS--JOSEPH'S COAT BROUGHT TO HIS FATHER--JUDAH AND HIS SONS--THE WIVES OF THE SONS OF JACOB--JOSEPH THE SLAVE OF POTIPHAR--JOSEPH AND ZULEIKA--JOSEPH RESISTS TEMPTATION--JOSEPH...
Chapter Iv. Noah : 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 NOAH--THE BIRTH...
Chapter Iv. David : IV. DAVID DAVID'S BIRTH AND DESCENT David, the "elect of God," was descended from a family which itself belonged to the elect of Israel. Those ancestors of his who are enumerated in the Bible by name are all of them men of distinguished excellence. Besides, David was a descendant of Miriam...
Chapter I : MOSES IN THE WILDERNESS THE LONG ROUTE The exodus would have been impossible if Joseph's bones had remained behind. Therefore Moses made it his concern to seek their resting-place, while the people had but the one thought of gathering in the treasures of the Egyptians. But it was not an easy matter...
Title Page : THE LEGENDS OF THE JEWS VOLUME IV BIBLE TIMES AND CHARACTERS FROM JOSHUA TO ESTHER BY LOUIS GINZBERG TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN MANUSCRIPT
Chapter Ii. The Judges : II. THE JUDGES THE FIRST JUDGE After the death of Joshua the Israelites inquired to God whether they were to go up against the Canaanites in war. They were given the answer: "If ye are pure of heart, go forth unto the combat; but if your hearts are sullied with sin, then refrain." They inquired...
Chapter Viii. Elisha And Jonah : VIII. ELISHA AND JONAH ELISHA THE DISCIPLE OF ELIJAH The voices of the thousands of prophets of his time were stilled when Elijah was translated from earth to heaven. With him vanished the prophetical spirit of those who in former times had in no wise been his inferiors. Elisha was the only one...
Chapter I. The Creation Of The World : 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 THE CREATION OF THE WORLD--THE FIRST THINGS CREATED In the beginning, two thousand years before the heaven...
Chapter Vi : BALAAM, THE HEATHEN PROPHET The man whom the Moabites and Midianites believed to be Moses' peer was none other than Laban, Israel's arch-enemy, who in olden days had wanted to root out entirely Jacob and all his family, and who had later on incited Pharaoh and Amalek against the people of Israel...
Chapter Iii. The Ten Generations : 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...
Chapter Xii. Esther : XII. ESTHER THE FEAST FOR THE GRANDEES The Book of Esther is the last of the Scriptural writings. The subsequent history of Israel and all his suffering we know only through oral tradition. For this reason the heroine of the last canonical book was named Esther, that is, Venus, the morning-star...
Next. Title Page : THE LEGENDS OF THE JEWS VOLUME III BIBLE TIMES AND CHARACTERS FROM THE EXODUS TO THE DEATH OF MOSES BY LOUIS GINZBERG TRANSLATED PROM THE GERMAN MANUSCRIPT BY PAUL RADIN REVISER AND PROOF-READER OF VOLUME III, DOCTOR ISAAC HUSIK TO MY MOTHER ON THE OCCASION OF HER SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY
Preface : PREFACE "When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a People of strange language, Jacob was His sanctuary and Israel His dominion. Jewish legend attempts to describe how God's sanctuary, the religion of Israel and His dominion, the beginnings of Israel as a nation, arose in the time...
Chapter Vii : THE LAST DAY OF MOSES' LIFE On the seventh day of Adar, Moses knew that on this day he should have to die, for a heavenly voice resounded, saying, "Take heed to thyself, O Moses, for thou hast only one more day to live." What did Moses now do? On this day he wrote thirteen scrolls of the Torah...
Untitled : THE LEGENDS OF THE JEWS BY LOUIS GINZBERG [1909] This is a massive collation of the Haggada--the traditions which have grown up surrounding the Biblical narrative. These stories and bits of layered detail are scattered throughout the Talmud and the Midrash, and other sources, including oral...
Chapter V : THE REBELLION OF KORAH The Canaanites were not the only ones who did not enjoy their wealth and money, for a similar fate was decreed for Korah. He had been the treasurer of Pharaoh, and possessed treasures so vast that he employed three hundred white mules to carry the keys of his treasures: but...
Next. Chapter V. Abraham : THE LEGENDS OF THE JEWS BY LOUIS GINZBERG TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN MANUSCRIPT BY HENRIETTA SZOLD Volume II BIBLE TIMES AND CHARACTERS FROM JOSEPH TO THE EXODUS
Chapter Xi. The Return Of The Captivity : XI. THE RETURN OF THE CAPTIVITY BELSHAZZAR'S FEAST When God resolved to take revenge upon Babylon for all the sufferings it had inflicted on Israel, He chose Darius and Cyrus as the agents of vengeance. Cyrus, the king of Persia, and his father-in-law Darius, the king of Media, together went up...
Chapter Iii : THE MATERIALS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE TABERNACLE When, on the Day of Atonement, God said to Moses, "Let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them," that the nations of the world might see that He has forgiven Israel their sin, the worship of the Golden Calf, it was gold He bade them...
Chapter X. The Exile : X. THE EXILE ZEDEKIAH The execution of one king and the deportation of another were but preludes to the great national catastrophe in the time of Zedekiah, the destruction of the Temple and the exile of the whole people. After Nebuchadnezzar had led Jehoiachin and a portion of the people...
Next. Chapter Vi. Jacob : PREFACE The arrangement and presentation of the material in this volume are the same as in Volume I. In both my efforts have been directed to bringing together as full as possible a collection of Jewish legends that deal with Biblical personages and events. The sources of those legends...
Chapter V. Solomon : V. SOLOMON SOLOMON PUNISHES JOAB At the youthful age of twelve Solomon succeeded his father David as king. His real name was Jedidiah, the "friend of God," but it was superseded by the name Solomon on account of the peace that prevailed throughout the realm during his reign. He bore three other...
Title Page. Part 2 : PREFACE Was sich nie und nirgends hat begeben, das allein veraltet nie. The term Rabbinic was applied to the Jewish Literature of post-Biblical times by those who conceived the Judaism of the later epoch to be something different from the Judaism of the Bible, something actually opposed to it. Such...
Chapter Ii : THE INSTALLATION OF ELDERS Jethro, who had come to Moses shortly before the revelation on Mount Sinai, stayed with his son-in-law for more than a year. In the first months, however, he had no opportunity of observing Moses in the capacity of judge, for Moses spent the time from the day...
Chapter Iv. Moses In Egypt : IV MOSES IN EGYPT--THE BEGINNING OF THE EGYPTIAN BONDAGE--PHARAOH'S CUNNING--THE PIOUS MIDWIVES--THE THREE COUNSELLORS--THE SLAUGHTER OF THE INNOCENTS--THE PARENTS OF MOSES--THE BIRTH OF MOSES--MOSES RESCUED FROM THE WATER--THE INFANCY OF MOSES--MOSES RESCUED BY GABRIEL--THE YOUTH OF MOSES...
Chapter Ix. The Later Kings Of Judah : IX. THE LATER KINGS OF JUDAH JOASH When the prophet Jonah, doing the behest of his master Elisha, anointed Jehu king over Israel, he poured the oil out of a pitcher, not out of a horn, to indicate that the dynasty of Jehu would not occupy the throne long. At first Jehu, though a somewhat foolish...
Chapter Iii. Job : III JOB--JOB AND THE PATRIARCHS--JOB'S WEALTH AND BENEFACTIONS--SATAN AND JOB--JOB'S SUFFERING--THE FOUR FRIENDS--JOB RESTORED JOB--JOB AND THE PATRIARCHS Job, the most pious Gentile that ever lived, one of the few to bear the title of honor "the servant of God," was of double kin to Jacob. He w...
