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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. The Talmud.?Rabbinical Account of the Oral Law.? Compilation of the Mishna: ?of the Jerusalem Ge- mara: ?of the Babylonian Gemara.?Remark on Want of Evidence in favour of the Oral Law.? Alleged Necessity of an Oral Law.?Reason why it was not committed to writing.?Praises of the Talmud.?The thirteen Ways of reasoning employed by the Robbies in expounding the Law. This work is not designed to include an account of all the Jewish writers who have flourished in modern ages, and whose works have been held in high esteem by their nation down to the present day. They are so numerous, that a catalogue of their names, with a brief specification of the times when they lived and the treatises which they wrote, would exceed the limits of this volume.1 But among the productions of Jewish pens, it is necessary to devote a few pages to the Talmud; which is regarded by the rabbies and their followers with a veneration exceeding what they shew even for the scriptures themselves.2 ' Vid. BibHoth. ]Jag. Rabb. Bartoloc. et Imbonat. 5 torn. Wolf. Biblioth. Heb. 4 vol. 3 Pseif. Theol. Jud. Ex. i. Th. 37. The word Talmud signifies learning, wisdom, doctrine. The work distinguished by this title consists of two parts, ?the Mishna, which denotes a repeated or second law; and the Gemara, by which some understand a supplement or completion, and others a commentary or discussion.1 The Jews acknowledge two laws which they believe to have been delivered to Moses on Mount Sinai; of which one was immediately committed to writing in the text of the Pentateuch, and the other is said to have been handed down from generation to generation, for many ages, by oral tradition. Of the origin and transmission of this Oral Law, they have favoured the world with the following account. All the p..
| ISBN-13 | 9780217786904 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217786901 |
| Weight | 0.78 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.54 In |
| List Price | $20.31 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 236 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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