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A bride for one night : Talmud tales / Ruth Calderon ; translated by Ilana Kurshan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Calderon, Ruth, 1961-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jewish legends.
- Rabbinical literature--History and criticism.
- Rabbinical literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (318 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : The Jewish Publication Society, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Ruth Calderon has recently electrified the Jewish world with her teachings of talmudic texts. In this volume, her first to appear in English, she offers a fascinating window into some of the liveliest and most colorful stories in the Talmud. Calderon rewrites talmudic tales as richly imagined fictions, drawing us into the lives of such characters as the woman who risks her life for a sister suspected of adultery; a humble schoolteacher who rescues his village from drought; and a wife who dresses as a prostitute to seduce her pious husband in their garden. Breathing new life into an ancient
- Contents:
- The imaginative map
- The fishpond
- Sisters
- The other side
- Beloved rabbi
- Libertina
- Return
- A bride for one night
- Nazir
- Lamp
- The matron
- The goblet
- The knife
- He and his son
- Sorrow in the cave
- Elisha
- The Beruria incident
- Yishmael, my son, bless me.
- Notes:
- "Published by the University of Nebraska Press as a Jewish Publication Society book."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780827611641
- 0827611641
- 9780827611634
- 0827611633
- OCLC:
- 868068761
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