Equally important, Schwartz provides a wealth of additional information. We discover new tales about the greatįigures of the Hebrew Bible, from Adam to Moses stories about God's Bride, the Shekhinah, and the evil temptress, Lilith plus many tales about angels and demons, spirits and vampires, giant beasts and the Golem. We read of Adam's diamond and the Land of Eretz (where it is always dark), the fall of Lucifer and the quarrel of the sun and the moon, the Treasury of Souls and the Divine Chariot. As Howard Schwartz reveals in Tree of Souls, the first anthology of Jewish mythology in English, this mythical tradition is as rich and as fascinating as any in the world.ĭrawing from the Bible, the Pseudepigrapha, the Talmud and Midrash, the kabbalistic literature, medieval folklore, Hasidic texts, and oral lore collected in the modern era, Schwartz has gathered together nearly 700 of the key Jewish myths. Only one of the world's mythologies has remained essentially unrecognized-the mythology of Judaism. They are drawn from a range of sources including the Bible, and the Jewish apocryphal. This book identifies and collects nearly 700 of these primary Jewish myths. Demonstrates that there is a flourishing mythology in Judaism, which first emerges in the Bible and continues to evolve in all subsequent phases of Jewish literature and lore.
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