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Rabbinic fantasies : imaginative narratives from classical Hebrew literature / edited by David Stern and Mark Jay Mirsky ; translations by Norman Bronznick ... [et al.].
- Title
- Rabbinic fantasies : imaginative narratives from classical Hebrew literature / edited by David Stern and Mark Jay Mirsky ; translations by Norman Bronznick ... [et al.].
- Publication
- Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society, 1990.
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- Description
- ix, 364 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
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- Translations
- Note
- "An Edward E. Nelson book"--T.p.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Rabbinic parables -- Two narratives about God -- Jonah and the sailors from Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer -- Sefer Zerubbabel -- Midrash on the Ten Commandments -- The tale of the Jerusalemite -- Midrash eleh ezkerah or The legend of the ten martyrs -- The alphabet of Ben Sira -- Parables from Sefer Ha-Bahir -- Narrative fantasies from Sefer Hasidim -- Love in the afterlife : a selection from the Zohar -- Asher in the harem / Solomon Ibn Saqbel -- The misogynist / Judah Ibn Shabbetai -- The sorcerer : from Meshal ha-kadmoni / Isaac Ibn Sahula -- Job's novella : from A valley of vision / Abraham ben Hananiah Yagel -- The "dream-talks" of Nahman of Bratslav -- In a turn of the scroll : an afterword / Mark Jay Mirsky.
- ISBN
- 0827603630
- LCCN
- ^^^90032680^
- OCLC
- 21154483
- SCSB-12287274
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library