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

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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but not by any contributive activity” (Broyde). He did not accept the Kabbalistic tenet of the eternity of the world, and (unlike the Kabbalists) believed that God’s attributes could be defined. But the mystical leanings of a man otherwise so popular and admired did much to support the Kabbalistic movement. It is true, as Graetz says, that Nachmanides exercised more influence on his contemporaries and on succeeding ages by his personality than by his writings. But it must be added that the writings of Nachmanides are his personality. BIBLIOGRAPHY. Nachmanides. I. H. Weiss, “ Study of the Talmud in the Thirteenth Century,” J.Q.R. i. p. 289. S. Schechter, Studies in Judaism, p. 99 [120]. Graetz, iii. 17 ; also iii. p. 598 [617]. I. Broyde, J.E. ix. p. 87 seq. Jacob Tam. Graetz, iii. p. 375 [385]. Tossafists. Graetz, iii. pp. 344 [351], 403 [415]. M. Seligsohn, J.E. xii. p. 202 seq.

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