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A bride for one night : Talmud tales / Ruth Calderon ; translated by Ilana Kurshan.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press ; Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (xx, 163 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781461956624
  • 1461956625
  • 9780827611641
  • 0827611641
  • 9780827611634
  • 0827611633
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Bride for one nightDDC classification:
  • 296.1/2 23
LOC classification:
  • BM530 .C345 2014eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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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.
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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)685840

"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.

Print version record.

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.