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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World the Holy and bleffed God will fend him to in¬ troduce the Ijraelites into the Paradife0 where their Faces fhall fhine as bright as the Sun: I leave it to the impartial Reader to decide, if all thefe Notions don’t perfectly agree with the Belief of the Chriffians concern¬ ing Chrift the Son of God. What is faid in the Talmud and the Rabbinical Writings of feme of the Angels being created out of the Element of Fire, others of Water, and others again of Wind,p of tlwir being fubjedt unto Death whenever they prefume to go from their allotted Place;q Their inffmdfing Mankind in Wifdom and Knowledge;1’ T;:eir moving and animating the Celeftial Spheres and the Planets;1 Their governing every thing in the Wm , and prefiding over Nations, Empires, Cities, l it: . Animals, Reptiles, Fifhes, Fire, Water, Rain, Hail, Thunder, Lightning, Trees, Plants, Herbs, £5V.f Their Enchantments11 and that every Man hath his pe¬ culiar Angel or Guardian,w is taken from the Notions cf the Heathen Philofophers: But their Dodfrine con¬ cerning the time of the Creation of the Angels, their Number, their different Stations and Statures, their ap¬ pearing in Human Shape, is founded upon fome Paffages of the Scriptures ; we muff only obferve that when it is faid, that the Holy and Bleffed God creates every Day a Multitude of Angels, who after they have lung a Hymn before him, do periih;x and that out of every Word that proceedeth out of the Mouth of God an Angel is created y, thefe are Allegories which fignify that all cre¬ ated Beings, animate and inanimate, ip Heaven and upon Earth, praife God. Tjie Traditions of the Jews concerning Evil Spirtis or Devils are various ; fome of them are founded upon Scripture, fome borrowed from the Notions of the Pa- [o] Rab. Akkiva Othioth, foJ. i3. [p] Traditions of the Jews, Vol. II. p. 74. [q] Ibid. p. 75. [r] Ibid. p. 76. [f] Ibid. p. 82, j.tj Ibid. p. 77, 79. [ul Ibid. p. So. 81. [v?] Ibid. p. 87. fx] Ibid. j>.7* {Y} ibid- P-74- gans;

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