02769nam 2200625 450 991045355990332120200520144314.00-8276-1164-10-8276-1163-3(CKB)2550000001183395(EBL)1595284(SSID)ssj0001084274(PQKBManifestationID)12445414(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001084274(PQKBWorkID)11039599(PQKB)11347129(MiAaPQ)EBC1595284(OCoLC)868068761(MdBmJHUP)muse32514(Au-PeEL)EBL1595284(CaPaEBR)ebr10827159(CaONFJC)MIL563421(OCoLC)868488915(EXLCZ)99255000000118339520140121h20142014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA bride for one night Talmud tales /Ruth Calderon ; translated by Ilana KurshanPhiladelphia, [Pennsylvania] :The Jewish Publication Society,2014.©20141 online resource (318 p.)"Published by the University of Nebraska Press as a Jewish Publication Society book."0-8276-1209-5 1-306-32170-0 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 Jewish legendsRabbinical literatureHistory and criticismElectronic books.Jewish legends.Rabbinical literatureHistory and criticism.296.1/2Calderon Ruth1961-1047858Kurshan Ilana1047859MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910453559903321A bride for one night2475748UNINA