The Legends of the Jews

By Louis Ginsberg

Excerpt from the Preface to Volume I of IV: "The term Rabbinic was applied to the Jewish Literature of post-Biblical times by those who conceived the Judaism of the later epoch to be something different from the Judaism of the Bible, something actually opposed to it. Such observers held that the Jewish nation ceased to exist with the moment when its political independence was destroyed. For them the Judaism of the later epoch has been a Judaism of the Synagogue, the spokesmen of which have been the scholars, the Rabbis. And what this phase of Judaism brought forth has been considered by them to be the product of the schools rather than the product of practical, pulsating life."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1519608101
• ISBN13: 9781519608109
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"