Volume 1

Rabbinical literature: or, the traditions of the Jews, contained in their Talmud and other mystical writings. Likewise the opinions of that people concerning Messiah, and the time and manner of His appearing; with an appendix, comprizing Buxtorf's account of the religious customs and ceremonies of that nation. Also, A preliminary enquiry into the origin, progress, authority, and usefulness of these traditions; wherein the sense of the strange allegories in the Talmud and Jewish authors is explained / By the Revd. Mr. J.P. Stehelin.

Johann Andreas Eisenmenger

Date:: 1748

Credit: Rabbinical literature: or, the traditions of the Jews, contained in their Talmud and other mystical writings. Likewise the opinions of that people concerning Messiah, and the time and manner of His appearing; with an appendix, comprizing Buxtorf's account of the religious customs and ceremonies of that nation. Also, A preliminary enquiry into the origin, progress, authority, and usefulness of these traditions; wherein the sense of the strange allegories in the Talmud and Jewish authors is explained / By the Revd. Mr. J.P. Stehelin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[ ip j verty, his Third after Learning was infatiable : Being Indrudted by Shema'ia and Abtalion, he became very emi¬ nent in the Knowledge of the Law ; when he was forty Years of Age, he removed with all his Family to Jeru~ falem, where he was in great Favour with King Herod, and kept a publick School. The JewifhHidorians a fay, he bred up above a thoufand Scholars, of whom thirty were worthy, on whom the Divine Glory fhould reft* as it did upon Mofes, thirty for whom the Sun fhould ftand dill, as it did for Joflma and twenty others of a middling Size : Hottingerb conjedtures that the Hellenians of whom it is fpoken in the Dialogue of Juflin Martyr with Tryphon, were the Difciples of Hillel, and fhould have been called Hellelians: Jonathan Ben Uzziel the Author of the Chaldee Paraphrafe on the Prophets, was one of them. Some make Onkelos the Author of the Par gum, or Chaldee Paraphrafe on the Law, contem¬ porary with him: Others pretend this Onkelos furvived Gamaliel the Elder, and that he died eighteen Years be¬ fore the Dedrudtion of Jerufalem, but Dr. Prideauxc is of Opinion, that Onkelos was before Jonathan, having written in better Chaldee, and that Jonathan did not tranflate the Law, becaufe Onkelos had done it before him. The mod: eminent of Hillers Scholars was Shammaiy who afterwards differ’d from his Matter in feverai Points, particularly about the Firft Fruits, the Profelytes, the Sabbath, and the Divorce. In a Conference they had together, in the Houfe of R. Chanania, at which their Difciples were prefent, they agreed upon eighteen De¬ crees or Conditutions, but difputing about fome others, they fell from V/ords to Blows, and R. Joßua Onia faith, that federal of Hillers Dilciples were then killed, from that Time they were divided into two Seeds, m the School of Hillel, and JY3 the [a] Zacut injuchafin, Gedalia, Ganz Tfemach David. [b] Hot- t|ng. Thefaur. Philolog. p. 42, [c] Prid. Gonnex. P. 11. p. 535.

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