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Index Aaron, 168, 169 Abbaye, 146, 148, 149, 151, 152–54, 228 Abel, 47, 48, 80–82 Abraham, 16, 18, 31, 36, 49, 201; Nimrod and, 82–83, 84; Sarah and, 220; testing of, 48 Abram, 16 abridged journey, 86, 264 academy, 71, 72, 78, 79, 106, 187; common people and, 264; demons in, 152–53; Isaiah’s death and, 95; as ivory tower, 117; tosa¤st, 338 Adam, 12, 47, 87, 228, 271; burial cave of, 220; Lilith and, 369 Adam and Eve, Book of, 80, 90 Adversary. See Satan Aesop’s fables, 23, 193–98, 200, 202, 206, 488n46 Against Apion (Josephus), 43 aggadah, 241, 243, 263, 264, 265, 272; biblical verse and, 223; birth legends and, 326; as folk narrative, 250–65 aggadic literature, 72, 78, 87, 227; comic tales and, 180; Daniel story cycle and, 100; death in, 114; eastern motifs in, 101; expanded biblical stories, 79, 90; fables, 194; Flood story in, 82 Agrat bat Mahlath (demon), 148, 150 agriculture, 11, 189–90, 191, 197, 204 Ahikar, 39, 63, 64, 102–103, 105, 214 Ahimaaz (family), 318–19, 353 Akiva, R., 90, 136, 144, 209, 325, 385; daughter of, 163–64, 224–25; death of, 3, 112–13, 276, 487n44; “emergence” of, 109–11; fox-and-¤shes fable, 76, 205, 206, 207, 275–76; Kalba Savua’s daughter and, 71, 234, 258; magician and, 160; medieval tales about, 258–59; sage stories and, 108, 218; story cycles about, 226; tall tales and, 185; tanna and the dead man, 457; as Torah scholar, 206, 327; wandering dead and, 290 Alexander the Great, 101, 219, 266 Alexandria, 45, 51, 98 Allah, 266–67, 270 Alphabet of Ben Sira, 246, 247, 248, 251, 275, 282 amoraic period, 109, 115 analogy, 286 anecdotes, 190, 269, 284 Angel of Death: bride and, 103, 285, 350, 368; encounter with, 367–68; R. Joshua ben Levi and, 256, 257–58, 267; Torah study and, 114 angels, 36, 42, 279, 280, 303, 369; Jacob and the angel, 12–13; Raphael, 65; rebel, 68; in Susannah and the Elders, 62 animal tales, 26, 193, 284, 408; Bible and, 33; disappearance of, 249; fables and, 23, 24, 208; Hasidic tales and, 405; Indian, 266; Middle Ages, 263; Sabbath in, 125 animals, 12, 23, 49, 192; language of, 260, 271; in service to God, 237–38 antagonist, 91, 138 anthropomorphism, 192, 208 anti-Christian legends, 306 anti-heroes, 138, 139, 143. See also heroes anti-Jewish humor, 180–82 Antiquities of the Jews (Josephus), 51, 92 anti-saints, 119–20 antisemitism, 78, 330 Antoninus Pius (Roman emperor), 204–205, 221, 264 Apocrypha, 38–40, 46, 84, 96 Apuleius, Lucius, 354 Arab culture, 246, 283, 284; in modern Israel, 411, 429, 441–43 Arabian Nights, The, 246, 266, 276, 346 Arabic language, 253, 265, 275; Bible in, 38, 39; spoken by Jews, 247, 248, 407. See also JudeoArabic language Aramaic language, 5, 55, 369; Bible in, 38, 39, 103, 214; in comic tales, 171–72; fables in, 198; Moses in Ethiopia story, 92; proverbs in, 195; spoken by Jews, 247; story cycles in, 219; Torah in, 71, 77 Ark of the Covenant, 41 Armenian language, 38, 39 Artapanus, 51, 52, 92 Arthur, King, 266 Ashmedai (King of Demons): as anti-hero, 68; Benaiah and, 267; in Book of Tobit, 65, 66, 67; Solomon and, 87–89, 154, 482n20 associative accumulation, 227–44, 240 Assyria, 65 astrology, 162–64, 224 Athens, Elders of, 101–102, 160, 214–15, 241, 355 Atonement, Day of, 173, 174, 233, 270, 331, 385 authenticity, 15, 16, 32; of exemplary tales, 121, 284–85, 287; of fairy tales, 151; of foundation myths, 188; of historical legends, 132, 133; of Patriarchal tales, 22, 23 Avimelekh, 16–17, 24, 25, 201 Ba’al, prophets of, 36 Ba’al Shem Tov, Israel, 372, 376, 381, 383, 384; captive-child motif and, 399; hidden zaddik and, 393–96; “Moses by the Well” story, 388– 89; physician and, 418–19, 424; “praises” of, 402–403; R. Isaac Luria and, 390; in shepherd tale, 386–87 Baba Sali, 418–22, 428, 430, 431 Babylonia, 4, 8, 30, 246; academy in, 98; in Daniel story cycle, 58, 59, 101; demons in, 150; fables in, 192; as Jewish center, 38, 172, 310, 316; priests of, 57; rainmaking in, 230; victory over Egypt, 63 Babylonian Talmud, 70, 75, 90, 97, 252, 255; Angel of Death in, 256; expanded biblical stories in, 79; Isaiah in, 93–94; King Solomon tale in, 87; magical...

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