Bible. Old Testament -- Legends
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Legends of the Patriarchs and Prophets and Other Old Testament Characters, from Various Sources (New York: American Book Exchange, 1881), by S. Baring-Gould (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)- The Legends of the Jews (6 public domain volumes), by Louis Ginzberg, trans. by Henrietta Szold and Paul Radin, contrib. by Isaac Husik (Gutenberg and Internet Archive texts and page images)
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Filed under: Jewish legends- The Chronicles of Jerahmeel, or, The Hebrew Bible Historiale: Being a Collection of Apocryphal and Pseudo-Epigraphical Books Dealing With the History of the World From the Creation to the Death of Judas Maccabeus (1899), ed. by Moses Gaster and El'azar ben Asher ha-Levi (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- The Great March: Post-Biblical Jewish Stories, Book I, by Rose G. Lurie, illust. by Todros Geller and Belle Baranceanu (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- The Legends of the Jews (6 public domain volumes), by Louis Ginzberg, trans. by Henrietta Szold and Paul Radin, contrib. by Isaac Husik (Gutenberg and Internet Archive texts and page images)
- Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends (New York: Bloch Publishing Co., c1919), by Gertrude Landa (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Tractatus de Diversis Historiis Romanorum et Quibusdam Aliis, Verfasst in Bologna i.j. 1326 (Codex Gudianus 200, in Latin, with German notes; Erlangen: Fr. Junge, 1893), ed. by Salomon Herzstein
- In the Pale: Stories And Legends of the Russian Jews (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1897), by Henry Iliowizi
- The Three Additions to Daniel: A Study, by William Heaford Daubney (multiple formats at CCEL)
- Jewish Poland: Legends of Origin; Ethnopoetics and Legendary Chronicles (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c2001), by Hayah Bar-Yitshak, trans. by Lenn Schramm (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)
- Old Testament Legends: Being Stories Out of Some of the Less-Known Apocryphal Books of the Old Testament, by M. R. James (Gutenberg text)
- Jewish Moroccan Folk Narratives from Israel (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1993), by Aliza Shenhar-Alroy, ed. by Hayah Bar-Yitshak, trans. by Miriam Widmann, contrib. by Haviva Dayan, Mordekhai Malka, Freha Hafutah, Rabbi Hanania Portal, Yamna Dayan, Yoseph Peretz, Juliette Megera, David Seruya, Asher Dayan, Sultana Shoshan, Ya'acov Edri, and Eliyahu Abu-Hatzera (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)
- Jewish Poland: Legends of Origin; Ethnopoetics and Legendary Chronicles (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c2001), by Hayah Bar-Yitshak, trans. by Lenn Schramm (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)
- Jalkut Machiri: Sammlung Halachischer und Hagadischer Stellen aus Talmud und Midraschim zu den 150 Psalmen (2 volumes in Hebrew and/or Yiddish; Berdyczew: J. Scheftel, 1899), by Makir ben Aba Mari, ed. by Salomon Buber (page images at HathiTrust)
- Legends of Our Fathers: A Collections of Legends from Ancient Rabbinical Writings, From the Creation to Joseph (New York: Sinai Pub. Co., 1921), ed. by Hyman E. Goldin (multiple formats at archive.org)
- En Jacob: Agada of the Babylonian Talmud (in Aramaic, Hebrew, and English translation; 5 volumes; New York: S. H. Glick, c1916-1921), by Jacob ben Solomon Ibn Ḥabib, trans. by S. H. Glick (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Legends of the Jews (6 public domain volumes), by Louis Ginzberg, trans. by Henrietta Szold and Paul Radin, contrib. by Isaac Husik (Gutenberg and Internet Archive texts and page images)
- Did Jesus Live 100 B. C.? An Enquiry into the Talmud Jesus Stories, the Toldoth Jeschu, and Some Curious Statements of Epiphanius, Being a Contribution to the Study of Christian Origins (London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1903), by G. R. S. Mead (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Der Golem: Ein Roman ("Gessamelte Werke" v1, in German; Leipzig: K. Wolff, c1915), by Gustav Meyrink (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Golden Mountain: Marvellous Tales of Rabbi Israel Baal Shem and of His Great-Grandson, Rabbi Nachman, Retold From Hebrew, Yiddish and German Sources (New York: Behrman House, c1932), by Meyer Levin, illust. by Marek Szwarc (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- The Maggid of Mezritch, by Yitzchak Dorfman (frame-dependent HTML at nishmas.org)
- Studies in the Masoretic Tradition of the Hebrew Bible (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), ed. by Daniel J. Crowther, Aaron D. Hornkohl, and Geoffrey Khan (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- The Historical Depth of the Tiberian Reading Tradition of Biblical Hebrew (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2023), by Aaron D. Hornkohl (HTML and PDF with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- The Asherah in the Old Testament (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1949), by W. L. Reed (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Ancient Hebrew Social Life and Custom As Indicated in Law, Narrative and Metaphor (1933), by R. H. Kennett (PDF in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- The "Higher Criticism" and the Verdict of the Monuments (London and Brighton: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: E. and J.B. Young and Co., 1894), by A. H. Sayce
- The "Higher Criticism" and the Verdict of the Monuments (reprint of revised 7th edition; London and Brighton: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: E. S. Gorham, 1910), by A. H. Sayce (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Unwrapping the Pharaohs: How Egyptian Archaeology Confirms the Biblical Timeline (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2006), by John F. Ashton and David Down (HTML with commentary at answersingenesis.org)
- Studies in the Masoretic Tradition of the Hebrew Bible (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), ed. by Daniel J. Crowther, Aaron D. Hornkohl, and Geoffrey Khan (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- The Historical Depth of the Tiberian Reading Tradition of Biblical Hebrew (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2023), by Aaron D. Hornkohl (HTML and PDF with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- Die Alttestamentlichen Lektionen der Griechischen Kirche (in German; Berlin: Weidmann, 1915), by Alfred Rahlfs (PDF at the Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen)
- Levirate Marriage and the Family in Ancient Judaism (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2009), by Dvora E. Weisberg (page images and PDF at Brandeis)
- Christ in the Old Testament: Sermons on the Foreshadowings of Our Lord in Old Testament History, Ceremony and Prophecy (London: Passmore and Alabaster, 1899), by C. H. Spurgeon (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Failure of the "Higher Criticism" of the Bible (London: J. Nisbet, 1905), by Emil Reich (page images at Google; US access only)
- The "Higher Criticism" and the Verdict of the Monuments (London and Brighton: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: E. and J.B. Young and Co., 1894), by A. H. Sayce
- The "Higher Criticism" and the Verdict of the Monuments (reprint of revised 7th edition; London and Brighton: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: E. S. Gorham, 1910), by A. H. Sayce (multiple formats at archive.org)
- History of the People of Israel (5 volumes; Boston: Roberts Bros., 1896), by Ernest Renan, trans. by Joseph Henry Allen and Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer
- all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
- Volume I (Till the Time of King David): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II (From the Reign of David up to the Capture of Samaria): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume IV (From the Rule of the Persians to That of the Greeks): multiple formats at archive.org
- Human Nature in the Bible, by William Lyon Phelps (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Outline Studies in the Books of the Old Testament (second edition; New York et al.: F. H. Revell, 1894), by William G. Moorehead (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Biblical Prose Prayer, As a Window to the Popular Religion of Ancient Israel (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983), by Moshe Greenberg (HTML at UC Press)
- Israel, Its Life and Culture: I-II (only public domain volume of this series (in the US); London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press; Copenhagen: P. Branner, 1926), by Johannes Pedersen, trans. by Aslaug Møller
- Folk-Lore in the Old Testament: Studies in Comparative Religion, Legend, and Law (3 volumes; London: Macmillan, 1919), by James George Frazer
- From the Garden of Eden to the Crossing of the Jordan (Cairo: Printed by the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology, ca. 1918), by William Willcocks (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- A Key to The Old Testament: or, A Summary View its Several Books, Pointing Out the Instructions and Mysteries Which They Contain (London: J. Booker; et al., 1817), by Henry Rutter
- Prolegomena to the History of Israel, With a Reprint of the Article "Israel" from the "Encyclopaedia Britannica", by Julius Wellhausen, trans. by J. Sutherland Black and Allan Menzies, contrib. by W. Robertson Smith (Gutenberg text)
- Prolegomena to the History of Israel, With a Reprint of the Article "Israel" from the "Encyclopaedia Britannica" (Edinburgh: A. and C. Black, 1885), by Julius Wellhausen, trans. by J. Sutherland Black and Allan Menzies, contrib. by W. Robertson Smith
- Their Hollow Inheritance: A Comprehensive Refutation of Christian Missionaries (third edition), by Michoel Drazin (frame-dependent HTML in Israel)
- Rabbi Davidis Kimchi Radicum Liber: sive, Hebraeum Bibliorum Lexicon, Cum Animadversionibus Eliae Levitae (in Hebrew with Latin notes; Berlin: Impensis G. Bethge, 1847), by David Kimhi, ed. by Johann Heinrich Biesenthal and F. Lebrecht, contrib. by Elijah Levita (page images at HathiTrust)
- Legends of Babylon and Egypt in Relation to Hebrew Tradition, by L. W. King (Gutenberg text)
- Legends of Babylon and Egypt in Relation to Hebrew Tradition (London: Pub. for the British Academy by H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1918), by L. W. King (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Promise of the Land: The Inheritance of the Land of Canaan by the Israelites (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Moshe Weinfeld (HTML at UC Press)
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