Legends of the Jews

Louis Ginzberg's monumental work retells Jewish biblical and post-biblical traditions drawn from rabbinic literature, Midrash, and related sources. Its importance lies in the way it gathers a vast body of legendary material into a coherent scholarly narrative, and readers will find richly detailed accounts that expand the stories of Scripture with moral, theological, and folkloric elaboration.

Louis Ginzberg (1873–1953) was a Jewish scholar of rabbinics and Talmudic literature, best known for his monumental *Legends of the Jews*. His work is important for the study of religious narrative, folklore, and the development of Jewish legendary tradition.