Rabbinic Fantasies: Imaginative Narratives from Classical Hebrew Literature Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	3
	A Note on the Selections and the Translations	31
1	Rabbinic Parables	35
2	Two Narratives About God	47
3	Jonah and the Sailors from Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer	59
4	Sefer Zerubbabel	67
5	Midrash on the Ten Commandments	91
6	The Tale of the Jerusalemite	121
7	Midrash Eleh Ezkerah or The Legend of the Ten Martyrs	143
8	The Alphabet of Ben Sira	167
9	Parables from Sefer Ha-Bahir	203
10	Narrative Fantasies From Sefer Hasidim	215
11	Love in the Afterlife: A Selection from the Zohar	239
12	Asher in the Harem	253
13	The Misogynist	269
14	The Sorcerer from Meshal Ha-Kadmoni	295
15	Job's Novella from A Valley of Vision	313
16	The "Dream-Talks" of Nahman of Bratslav	333
	In a Turn of the Scroll: An Afterword	349