Jewish Literature from the Eighth to the Eighteenth Century: With an Introduction on Talmud and Midrash : a Historical Essay from the German of M. SteinschneiderLongman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1857 - 378 páginas |
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Página 85 - ... one hand it has contributed more than any other work to the progress of rational development in Judaism, has on the other hand also become the arena for a long and bitter fight between orthodoxy and science— carrying out, as it did, to its last consequences the broad principle, that " the Bible must be explained metaphorically by established fundamental truths in accordance with rational conclusions.
Página 75 - In this the example of the Arabs could have but little influence ; as their historical literature must have remained, for the most part, unknown to the Jews, and there could have been no opportunity for imitation. Serious scientific study must have been opposed to the writing of dry chronicles, or of legends leading to pseudepigraphy, such as are to be found among the...
Página 139 - pHp7!, who gives an explanation of the grammatical parts of Rashi's commentary on the Pentateuch, availed himself chiefly of the preceding grammarians. 4. Samuel Jarchi, of Lunel, is the author of a small work, Dmo1?
Página 273 - Frankel shows that the Babylonian Talmud injures the more correct ideas contained in the Jerusalem Talmud by many unwarranted additions and inexact statements, and has given examples in different places of his new Monatschrift.
Página 176 - Emmanuel from the regions of the blest, and who is also said to have repented of his own poetry as a waste of time. This would show that he possessed more judgment than those who have published this unattractive work as the production of the
Página 72 - ... the scandal of the Antipopes. But even learned schools and writings soon became scarce ; and not until the end of the middle ages did a new life begin to be developed in Hungary and Austria, although even there it manifested no real progress. Study indeed increased to a gigantic extent ; but being left to itself, and guided by no general scientific knowledge, it unavoidably degenerated into a method repulsive to the few who were really profound scholars, or whose minds were less distorted. The...
Página 21 - The Mishna of R. Jehuda excluded not only traditions theoretically false, or critically suspected, but also for the most part discussion (Talmud) and exegesis...
Página 72 - Mohammedan theology to this kind of casuistry and discussion (" Pilpul"). which devotes more attention to the mode of treatment than to the subject itself. For it is the nature of a practical science — and the Halacha must be regarded throughout as a theory of law — that over-theorizing causes it to degenerate from a practical aim to a mere play of intellect. During this unhappy time rules derived from idle speculation were enforced as rules of life belonging to the religious law, more strictly...
Página 75 - Dispersion, a national history properly so called had ceased to exist, this feeling was necessarily confined to a pride in the intellectual powers of individuals.
Página 238 - ... anti-Christian) was published by JOSEL WITZENHAUSEN, a compositor at Athia's printing-office, with the assistance of the bibliographer SABBATAI BASS. After this meritorious undertaking, although another translation was published by ELIEZER SOSSMAN in conjunction with his brother-in-law the historian MENAHEM BEN SOLOMON LEVI (1725-9), no real progress was made, until MENDELSSOHN by his translations gave an entirely new direction to Jewish literature.