A bride for one night : Talmud tales /
Calderon, Ruth, 1961-
A bride for one night : Talmud tales / Ruth Calderon ; translated by Ilana Kurshan. - 1 online resource (xx, 163 pages)
"Published by the University of Nebraska Press as a Jewish Publication Society book."
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
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.
9781461956624 1461956625 9780827611641 0827611641 9780827611634 0827611633
1559E1DB-07D4-42A7-B099-714FD59D3A2C OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com 22573/ctt1d9js0t JSTOR
Jewish legends.
Rabbinical literature--History and criticism.
LĂ©gendes juives.
Littérature rabbinique--Histoire et critique.
RELIGION--Judaism--General.
RELIGION--Judaism--Sacred Writings.
Jewish legends
Rabbinical literature
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
BM530 / .C345 2014eb
296.1/2
A bride for one night : Talmud tales / Ruth Calderon ; translated by Ilana Kurshan. - 1 online resource (xx, 163 pages)
"Published by the University of Nebraska Press as a Jewish Publication Society book."
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
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.
9781461956624 1461956625 9780827611641 0827611641 9780827611634 0827611633
1559E1DB-07D4-42A7-B099-714FD59D3A2C OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com 22573/ctt1d9js0t JSTOR
Jewish legends.
Rabbinical literature--History and criticism.
LĂ©gendes juives.
Littérature rabbinique--Histoire et critique.
RELIGION--Judaism--General.
RELIGION--Judaism--Sacred Writings.
Jewish legends
Rabbinical literature
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
BM530 / .C345 2014eb
296.1/2