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Clouds of glory : legends and stories about Bible times / Miriam Chaikin ; illustrations by David Frampton.
LIBRA BM530 .C48 1998
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chaikin, Miriam.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jewish legends.
- Bible stories, English--Genesis.
- Bible stories, English.
- Midrash--Juvenile literature.
- Midrash.
- Bible stories--Old Testament.
- Jews--Folklore.
- Legends, Jewish.
- Local Subjects:
- Midrash--Juvenile literature.
- Midrash.
- Legends, Jewish.
- Jews--Folklore.
- Genre:
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adas Kodesch Shel Emeth (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 118 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Clarion Books, [1998]
- Summary:
- Presents twenty-one stories, in a single narrative, about God's relationship with His creation, from creating angels on the second day to testing Abraham's love.
- Notes:
- "The stories in this book are largely based on Rashi's commentary on the book of Genesis, and on Midrashic threads found in Louis Ginzberg's Legends of the Bible and in Raphael Patai's Gates to the Old City, A book of Jewish legends"--Page [iv].
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries by the Board of Governors of Adas Kodesch Shel Emeth.
- ISBN:
- 039574654X
- 9780395746547
- OCLC:
- 36241789
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