1992~”The fashion Book Of Legends~Sefer Ha-Aggadah By Bialik & Ravnitzy Book

1992~”The Book Of Legends~Sefer Ha-Aggadah (Legends From The Talmud And Midrash)” Hardcover With Dust Jacket Book. The book is Edites By Hayim Nahman Bialik and Yehoshua Hana Ravnitzky. It's translated By William G. Braude. The Introduction is by David Stern. This book is published by Schocken Books. This book is in MINT condition with NO tears, stains, or markings on any of the pages!! The dust jacket is in good condition & the bind is strong.

***You should read this book if you want a deeper understanding of what the Jewish people understood about God and the old testament scriptures.

The first complete English translation of the Hebrew classic Sefer Ha-Aggadah brings to the English-speaking world the greatest and best-loved anthology of classical Rabbinic literature ever compiled. First published in Odessa in 1908-11, it was recognized immediately as a masterwork in its own right, and reprinted numerous times in Israel.
The Hebrew poet Hayim Nahman Bialik and the renowned editor Yehoshua Hana Ravnitzky, the architects of this masterful compendium, selected hundreds of texts from the Talmud and midrashic literature and arranged them thematically, in order to provide their contemporaries with easy access to the national literary heritage of the Jewish people — the texts of Rabbinic Judaism that remain at the heart of Jewish literacy today.
Bialik and Ravnitzky chose Aggadah — the non-legal portions of the Talmud and Midrash — for their anthology. Loosely translated as “legends”, Aggadah includes the genres of biblical exegesis, stories about biblical characters, the lives of the Talmudic era sages and their contemporary history, parables, proverbs, and folklore. A captivating melange of wisdom and piety, fantasy and satire, Aggadah is the expressive medium of the Jewish creative genius.
The arrangement of this compendium reflects the theological concerns of the Rabbinic sages: the role of Israel and the nations; God, good and evil; human relations; the world of nature; and the art of healing. Here, the reader who wants to explore traditional Jewish views on a fashion particular subject is treated to a selection of relevant texts at his fingertips but will soon become immersed in a way of thinking, exploring, and questioning that is the hallmark of Jewish inquiry.

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