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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[«>]. School of Shammai. The Rabbinifts give the Prefe¬ rence to Hillel, they pretend he alone preferved the Law and the Traditions ; we read in the Talmud, that after the' Difciples of Hillel and Shammai had difputed three Years, and both of them pretended, that the De- cifion was according to their Opinion, the Bath-kol, or Voice from Heaven faid: Both are the Words of the living God, but the a Decifion is according to the School of Hillel. They reprefent Shammai as a morofe, reftlefs, and quarrelfome Man, and call his Difciples uD’pPVl, which by Ephiphanius is tranflated b M«f/raw, Diifenters. The Caraites on the other Hand prefer the Decifions of Shammai, they pretend that little or no Credit is to be given to the Bath-kol, or Voice from Heaven, which is only a Fable invented by the Rabbinifts, in order to give Sanction to their Traditions; that if the Scholars of Shammai were fewer in Number, they were more learned, more diligent, and more IlritSl:; that Hillel having fubftituted the practice of certain Ceremonies to true Holinefs of Life, and endeavoured to make the Yoke of the Law eafy, it is no Wonder he had more Difcipl es, than Shammai, who was more ftri£fc, and endeavour’d to inforce the Law, To Hillel who attained the Age of 120 Years, and was therefore called fpjfl Hillel the old, fuc- ceeded his Son Simeon, Lightfoot c and feveral others pretend he is the fame Simeon, who Luke II. 25, 26p 27, 28. is called a Man juft and devout, waiting for the Confolation of Ifrael, and who took the Child Jefus up in his Arms: Gamaliel his Son was his Succeffor, at whofe Feet St. Paul was brought up in the City of Jeru- falem, and taught according to the perfect Manner of the Law of the Fathers. Adis XXII. 3. and who fpoke in Behalf of the Apoftles, Adis V. 34. Simeon the Se¬ cond, his Son, perifh'd in the Deftrudlion of Jerufalem la]. Talmud in-parvo f. 13. [b] Hotting. Thef. Philol. p. 4$. [c] Lightfoot Hor. Talmud in Lucftm.

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