A short history of Jewish literature from the fall of the temple (70 C. E.) to the era of emancipation (1786 C. E.) / by Israel Abrahams.

  • Israel Abrahams
Date:
1906
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Credit: A short history of Jewish literature from the fall of the temple (70 C. E.) to the era of emancipation (1786 C. E.) / by Israel Abrahams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to be fulfilled by the limitation alluded to above. It is designed to encourage the elementary study of a much neglected section of Jewish literature. It was strongly urged upon the writer by the late F. D. Mocatta that a small text-book might be found useful for the purpose both for Christian and Jewish readers. He thought that it might be at once a school-book and a book for general reading. When the first edition of this book appeared in Philadelphia in 1899 (under the title “ Chapters on Jewish Literature”), it was received with a favour which surprised the author, and induced him to believe that Mr. Mocatta’s view was correct. Since 1899 it has become clear to the author, how¬ ever, that the book needed revision. Especially in the earlier chapters the treatment was inadequate, and the book now reissued bears a new title, for it is to a large extent a new book. It is dedicated to the memory of the man at whose suggestion the book was originally written. But though much revised, the plan of the volume is unchanged. In presenting an outline of Jewish literature three plans are possible. One can divide the subject according to Periods. Starting with the Rabbinic Age and closing with the activity of the earlier Geonim or Persian Rabbis, the First Period would carry us to the eighth or the ninth century. A well-marked Second Period is that of the Arabic-Spanish writers, a period which would
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