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A Bride for One Night: Talmud Tales
Ruth Calderon
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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 ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The Jewish Publication Society
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
Philadelphia, United States
ISBN
9780827612099
SKU
V9780827612099
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About Ruth Calderon
Ruth Calderon has a PhD in Talmud from Hebrew University and was elected to the Israeli Knesset in January 2013. She became a national celebrity when she taught a page of Talmud in the Israeli parliament, arguing that the text was the heritage of the entire Jewish people. She is founder and former director of Elul Beit Midrash in Jerusalem ... Read more
Reviews for A Bride for One Night: Talmud Tales
"A Bride for One Night highlights Ruth Calderon's remarkable skill in bridging the cultural gap between the rabbis and contemporary readers and the significant contribution she has made to demonstrating the relevance of rabbinic legends in the 21st century."—David C. Jacobson, Jewish Review of Books "Dr. Calderon's A Bride for One Night takes seventeen short sugyot (sections) of Talmudic texts, ... Read more