Under Schechter's leadership, JTS attracted a distinguished faculty, including Louis Ginzberg ( author of Legends of the Jews ), historian Alexander Marx, Arabist Israel Friedlander, and future founder of Reconstructionism Mordecai Kaplan, and became a highly regarded center of Jewish learning.

Ginzberg was the author of a number of scholarly Jewish works, including a commentary on Talmud Yerushalmi ( the Jerusalem Talmud ) and his six-volume ( plus a one-volume index ) The Legends of the Jews, ( 1909 ) which combined hundreds of legends and parables from a lifetime of midrash research.

This is possible, but not very likely ( see Ginzberg, Legends of the Jews ).

Legends concerning the date and manner of Akiva's death are numerous, but according to Crawford Howell Toy and Louis Ginzberg in the Jewish Encyclopedia, they must all be disregarded as being without historical foundation.

* Ginzberg Legends of the Jews Volume 2 Chapter 4

* Negarsanel, variant of Nasargiel, an angel of Hell according to The Legends of the Jews by Rabbi Louis Ginzberg.

* Legends of the Jews, by Rabbi Louis Ginzberg, is an original synthesis of a vast amount of aggadah from the Mishnah, the two Talmuds and Midrash.

** The Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg

In the Jerusalem Talmud ( Louis Ginzberg, Legends of the Jews, 1909 ),

* Ginzberg, Louis, " The Legends of the Jews ".

* Ginzberg, Eitan.

Although nearing ordination at the Yeshiva University's Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, he transferred to the Jewish Theological Seminary of America ( JTSA ), where he was ordained in 1934 and received the advanced Jewish legal degree of Hattarat Hora ’ ah under the great talmudic scholar Rabbi Professor Louis Ginzberg.

Rabbi Louis Ginzberg was a Talmudist and leading figure in the Conservative Movement of Judaism of the twentieth century.

Ginzberg was born into a religious family whose piety and erudition was well known.

Ginzberg recognized that his pious father was disappointed that his son had chosen a more liberal path with regards to Jewish law opposed to following the path of his forefathers.

Ginzberg first arrived in America in 1899, unsure where he belonged or what he should pursue.

Instead of just studying Halakha, Louis Ginzberg wrote responsa, formal responses to questions of Jewish law.

On account of his impressive scholarship in Jewish studies, Ginzberg was one of sixty scholars honored with a doctorate by Harvard University in celebration of its tercentenary.

Ginzberg ’ s knowledge warranted him the expert to defend Judaism both in national and international affairs.

In 1913, Louis Marshall requested that Ginzberg refute a blood libel charge in Kiev based on Jewish sources.

Ginzberg began teaching Talmud at the Jewish Theological Seminary from its reorganization in 1902 until his death in 1953.

During his era, Ginzberg influences almost every rabbi of the Conservative Movement in a personal way.

For some, Louis Ginzberg serves as a role model even today.

Today ’ s leading Conservative posek in Israel, Rabbi David Golinkin, has written profusely on Louis Ginzberg.

Golinkin has recently published a collection of responsa containing 93 questions answered by Ginzberg.

In the opening address, Ginzberg spoke of the need to keep Conservative Jewry under the rubric of Halakhah.

Ginzberg ’ s initiative to base halakhic decisions on law committees and not laymen is the method the Conservative movement describes as its present one till today.

Shortly afterwards, on January 24, 1922, the Conservative movement publicized the 71-page response written by Ginzberg tackling the halakhic aspects of drinking grape juice instead of wine in light of the historical circumstances.

Ginzberg had an encyclopedic knowledge of all rabbinic literature, and his masterwork included a massive array of aggadot.

Professor Ginzberg wrote 406 articles and several monograph-length entries for the Jewish Encyclopedia ( Levy 2002 ), some later collected in his Legend and Lore.

Many of his halakhic responsa are collected in The Responsa of Professor Louis Ginzberg, ed.

Four years later, seminary professors Alexander Marx, Louis Ginzberg and Saul Lieberman went public with their rebuke by writing a letter to the Hebrew newspaper Hadoar, lambasting Kaplan's prayer book and his entire career as a rabbi.

* Ginzberg, Eli.

Legends of the Jews is an original synthesis of a vast amount of aggadah from all of classical rabbinic literature, as well as apocryphal, pseudopigraphical and even early Christian literature, with legends ranging from the creation of the world and the fall of Adam, through a huge collection of legends on Moses, and ending with the story of Esther and the Jews in Persia.

Apart from Legends of the Jews, perhaps his best known scholarly work was his Geonica ( 1909 ), an account of the Babylonian Geonim containing lengthy extracts from their responsa, as discovered in the form of fragments in the Cairo Genizah.

* The Legends of the Jews

The work was used extensively but not especially more than many other sources in Louis Ginzberg's Legends of the Jews.

According to an oral tradition dictated by Xu Xin, Director of the Center for Judaic Studies at Nanjing University, in his book Legends of the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng, the Kaifeng Jews called Judaism Yīcìlèyè jiào ( 一賜樂業教 ), lit.

* Xu Xin, Legends of the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng, ( Hoboken: KTAV, 1995 ), ISBN Google books.

Works such as The Decay of Czarism and Legends of the Jews became staples of Jewish literacy and helped to preserve the legacy of European Jewry.

In 2008, Ice-T and Black Silver toured together as Black Ice, and released an album together called Urban Legends.

Malzahar, a character from League of Legends, has a similar back story and Arabian theme that seems to be a direct reference to Alhazred, not to mention the obvious correlation between the two names.

* Absalom is also the oldest and most powerful alliance in the first textbased game on internet called Utopia-World of Legends and holds Kingdoms as Equilibrium, Mercy, Sanctuary and Rage of Absalom.

* In the 2011 video game Warriors: Legends of Troy, Agamemnon is portrayed as a power-hungry tryant and is the main antagonist.

On May 14, 2005, the newly opened Sports Legends Museum at Camden Yards became the repository for the many Orioles and Colts artifacts and other items.

" Killer Khilats: Legends of Poisoned Robes of Honour in India.

In October 2005, a version was released for the Xbox, PlayStation 2, and PC as part of the Taito Legends compilation of classic arcade games.

He appeared as an opening act for The Clash in their 1979 US tour ; in Legends of Guitar ( filmed live in Spain, 1991 ) with B. B.

( 1911 ); Star Lore of All Ages, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, New York, U. S. A., hardcover ; reprint 2004 as Star Lore: Myths, Legends, and Facts, Dover Publications, Inc., Mineola, New York, U. S. A., ISBN 978-0-486-43581-7 softcover.

* Staal, Julius D. W. ( 1988 ) The New Patterns in the Sky: Myths and Legends of the Stars, McDonald & Woodward Publishing Co., ISBN 0-939923-10-6 hardcover, ISBN 0-939923-04-1 softcover.

Capcom was also criticized by Mega Man fans and gaming sites for cancelling Mega Man Legends 3 and Mega Man Universe, for releasing Mega Man X and the upcoming Rockman XOver ( Mega Man XOver ) for iOS devices, and their handing of the development of Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City to Slant Six Games and the upcoming DmC: Devil May Cry to Ninja Theory.

Caltech pranks have been documented in three Legends of Caltech books, the most recent of which was edited by alumni Autumn Looijen ' 99 and Mason A. Porter ' 98 and published in May 2007.

* Cassiopeia, a Champion from the online Battle-Arena game League of Legends.

The Last Trial: On the Legends and Lore of the Command to Abraham to Offer Isaac As a Sacrifice: The Akedah, Jewish Lights Publishing ; Reprint edition.