The story of a giant story. The winding way of Og king of Bashan in the Jewish haggadic tradition
Og, the king of Bashan, is depicted in the Bible, the midrash in the Tannaitic period and by Josephus as a giant of realistic dimensions. In the Amoraic exegeses he became a figure of monstrous proportions, possibly under the influence of views that appear in the Apocrypha. One "expansion"...
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| Language: | English |
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College
2002
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Hebrew Union College annual / Jewish Institute of Religion
Year: 2002, Volume: 73, Pages: 157-190 |
| RelBib Classification: | BH Judaism HB Old Testament |
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Bible. Deuteronomium 3
B Rabbinic Judaism B Bible. Numeri 21,33-35 B Haggadah |
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