A bride for one night : Talmud tales

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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 fictio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Calderon, Ruth, 1961-
Other Authors: Kurshan, Ilana
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : Philadelphia : University of Nebraska Press ; Jewish Publication Society, [2014]
Subjects:
Jewish legends.
Rabbinical literature > History and criticism.
RELIGION > Judaism > General.
RELIGION > Judaism > Sacred Writings.
Jewish legends
Rabbinical literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
Table of 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.

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