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THE LEGENDS OF THE JEWS VOLUME IV BIBLE TIMES AND
CHARACTERS FROM JOSHUA TO ESTHER
BY LOUIS GINZBERG

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN MANUSCRIPT

CONTENTS
I. JOSHUA The Servant of Moses Entering the Promised
Land--Conquest of the Land--The Sun Obeys Joshua--War with the
Armenians--Allotment of the Land.
II. THE JUDGES The First Judge--Campaigns of
KenaS--Othniel--Boaz and
Ruth--Deborah--Gideon--Jephthah--Samson--The Crime of the Crime
of the Benjamites.
III. SAMUEL AND SAUL Elkanah and Hannah--The Youth of
Samuel--Eli and His Sons--The Activities of Samuel--The Reign of
Saul--The Court of Saul.
IV. DAVID David's Birth and Descent--Anointed King--Encounter
with Goliath--Pursued by Saul--Wars--Ahithophel--Joab--David's Piety
and His Sin--Absalom's Rebellion--David's
Atonement--Visitations--The Death of David--David in Paradise--The
Family of David--His Tomb.
V. SOLOMON Solomon Punishes Joab--The Marriage of
Solomon--His Wisdom-- The Queen of Sheba--Solomon Master of the
Demons--The Building of the Temple--The Throne of Solomon--The
Hippodrome--Lessons in Humility--Asmodeus--Solomon as
Beggar--The Court of Solomon.
VI. JUDAH AND ISRAEL The Division of the
Kingdom--Jeroboam--The Two Ahijabs--Asa-- Jehoshaphat and
Ahab--Jezebel--Joram of Israel.
VII. ELIJAH Elijah before His Translation--After His

Translation--Censor and Avenger--Intercourse with the Sages--God's
Justice Vindicated-- Elijah and the Angel of Death--Teacher of the
Kabbalah--Forerunner of the Messiah.
VIII. ELISHA AND JONAH Elisha the Disciple of Elijah--The
Shunammite--Gehazi--The Flight of Jonah Jonah in the Whale--The
Repentance of Nineveh.
IX. THE LATER KINGS OF JUDAH Joash--Three Great
Prophets--The Two Kingdoms Chastised--Hezekjah--Miracles Wrought
for Hezekiah--Manasseh--Josiah and His Successors.
X. THE EXILE Zedekiah--Jeremiah--Nebuchadnezzar--The Capture of
Jerusalem-- The Great Lament--Jeremiah's Journey to
Babylon--Transportation of the Captives--The Sons of
Moses--Ebedmelech--The Temple Vessels--Baruch--The Tombs of
Baruch and Ezekie1--Daniel--The Three Men in the Furnace--Ezekiel
Revives the Dead--Nebuchadnezzar a Beast--Hiram--The False
Prophets--Daniel's Piety.
XI. THE RETURN OF THE CAPTIVITY Belshazzar's Feast--Daniel
under the Persian Kings--The Grave of Daniel--Zerubbabel--Ezra--The
Men of the Great Assembly.
XII. ESTHER The Feast for the Grandees--The Festivities in
Shushan--Vashti's Banquet--The Fate of Vashti--The Follies of
Ahasuerus--Mordecai Esther's Beauty and Piety--The Conspiracy
Haman the Jew-baiter-- Mordecai's Pride--Casting the Lots--The
Denunciation of