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Background notes frame each genre and emphasize its role as a repository of agada (legend). Selections prioritize material not previously available in English, with translations newly produced from Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Yiddish, or German sources, while keeping the distinctive stylistic flavor of the originals.","BOOK OFJEWISH LEGENDS  \nRAPHAEL PATAl  \nBOOK OFJEWISH LEGENDS  \nRAPHAEL PATAI  \nWayne State University Press Detroit.1981  \nCopyright   1981 by Raphacl Pztai.All rights are reserved.No part of this book may be reproduced without formal permissionfrom the publisher.  \nManufsctured in the United States of America  \nA softbound edition of this book is available from Avon Books.  \nLibrary of Congrese Cataloging in Pubbication Data  \nMain entry under title:Gates to the OHd City.Bibliogrzphy:p.Includes index.  \n1.Tales,Jewish.2.Legends.Jewish.3.Bibke.O.T.—Legends.4.Aggada—Trznslations into English.5.Tales,Hasidic.1.Patai,Raphacl,1910-BM530.G37198129%.180-66154ISBN 0-8143-1679-4  \nDR.RAPHAEL PATAI is a noted anthropologist,Biblicalscholar,and author.He taught Hebrew at the HebrewUniversity of Jerusalem,and served as professor ofanthropology at Dropsie University and at FairleighDickinson University,and as visiting professor at theUniversity of Pennsylvania and at Princeton,Columbia,Ohio State,and New York Universities.He was alsoconsultant to the Department of Social Affairs of theUnited Nations Secretariat,director of the Syria-Lebanon-Jordan research project of the Human Relations Area Files,director of research at the Herzl Institute,and editor of theHerzl Press.Dr.Patai is the author of twenty-six books,including Hebrew Mytbs(with Robert Graves),Man andTemple in Ancient Jewish Myth and Ritual,Golden River toGolden Road:Society.Culture and Change in the Middle East.Israel Between East and West.The Kingdom ofJordan,Tents ofJacob:The Diaspora Yesterday and Today.Myth and ModernMan.The Arab Mind,The Myth of the Jewish Race(withJennifer Patai-Wing),and The Jewish Mind.His two latestbooks,The Hebrew Goddess and The Mesiah Texis werepublished by Avon Books in 1978 and 1979 respectively.  \nCONTENTS  \nPreface  \n:  \nPrologue:The Six Days and the Seven Gates,by YitzhakNavon  \nix  \nIntroduction  \nxvii  \n1.BIBLE  \n1  \n2.APOCRYPHA  \n121  \n3.TALMUD  \n159  \nOf God162Creation,Eden,Gehenna164Sea Lore173Angels and Demons177Biblical Heroes190Between Israel and Edom209Sages and Saints221Sin and Repentance248  \n4.MIDRASH  \n257  \nCreation,Eden,GehennaBiblical Heroes  \n262  \n282  \nThe Exile:Woes and TriumphsWarriors and Martyrs  \n349  \n353  \nMen of Virtue:Sages and SaintsOf Birth and Death  \n371  \n378  \nAngels,Demons,and GhostsThe Messiah  \n386  \n410  \n5.KABBALA  \n419  \n424  \nOf Body and SoulThe Mysteries of EdenDeath and PunishmentMysterious WorldsThe Matronit  \n432  \n439  \n445  \n450  \n# CONTENTS(continued)\n\n5.KABBALA(continued)  \nThe Legend of LilithMysteries in HistorySages and SaintsOf Safed Kabbalists  \n# 6.FOLKTALES\n\nTales of Origins  \nRewards and PunishmentsAngels and DemonsAnimal TalesSatirical TalesHeroic TalesWisdom StoriesMiracle MenBiblical and Other Heroes  \n# 7.HASIDISM\n\nAbout the Ba'al Shem Tov  \nR.Leib Sarah's  \nR.Yitzhaq,the “Seer”of Lublin  \nR.Nahman of Bratzlav  \nOther Tzaddiqim  \nBibliography  \nIndex  \n469  \n482  \n504  \n513  \n518  \n522  \n563  \n593  \n598  \n608  \n628  \n636  \n652  \n667  \n669  \n701  \n711  \n717  \n726  \n749  \n767  \n# PREFACE\n\nThis anthology is intended to serve as a guide and anintroduction to the vast storehouses of the Agada(legend)literature accumulated by the Jews in the course of threethousand years.It contains selections from the seven majorgenres of Jewish literature that are,among other things,repositories of legends:the Bible,the Apocrypha,theTalmud,the Midrash,the Kabbala,folklore,and Hasidism.The background notes which precede each of these partsgive essential information about the genre.  \nOnly a very few legends about the Messiah have beenincluded,since about a year ago I published all the 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