Sefer ha-aggadah : legends from the Talmud and Midrash /
edited by Hayim Nahman Bialik and Yehoshua Hana Ravnitzky ; translated by William G. Braude ; introduction by David Stern.
New York :
Schocken Books,
c1992.
xxii, 897 p. ;
29 cm.
Translation of: Sefer ha-agadah.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Proem -- The work of creation and the first generations -- The deeds of the fathers -- Israel in Egypt and the departure from Egypt -- Israel in the wilderness -- Judges, kings, and prophets -- The destruction of the First Temple -- The era between the First and Second Temples -- The Second Temple: its structure and its services -- The destruction of the Second Temple and of the land -- The deeds of the sages -- Israel and the nations of the world -- The land of Israel -- Language -- Exile -- Redemption and the days of the Messiah -- In the time-to-come -- Torah -- Wisdom, prophecy, and song -- Sabbath, feasts, and fasts -- The Holy One, blessed be He, and relations between human beings and Him who is everywhere -- Good and evil -- Man and his needs -- A man's household -- Between man and man -- Traits and attitudes -- The community, the state and their requirements -- The world and all that it holds -- Matters pertaining to divination and healing -- Parables, proverbs, and sayings -- A miscellany.