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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...without further qualification. How comes Moses to be an Apostle, a name which belongs to the Christians? Clearly, because Mohammed is the Apostle par excellence to the Moslems. How then can the Jews dispense with one? The same writer proceeds to enumerate the " sources of law "; they are three: the Book, Consensus of authorities, and Analogy. A member of the rival sect would doubtless have enumerated four, giving Tradition the second place. Those who 1 Sefer Sa-Miswoth (Bodleian MS.). So too B. Baohya, Chobath haLebaboth (Warsaw, 1875), ii. 11,150. are acquainted with Mohammedan law are very familiar with the source of this discussion. The same four sources are enumerated by Mohammedan lawyers, only with them the question is whether Analogy counts or does not count. The whole of this doctrine of sources of law is therefore borrowed by the Jews from the Moslems. Next we observe that those who recognise Tradition as a source of law ascribe the tradition to Moses. Writers of the tenth century are aghast at the audacity of ascribing the Jewish tradition to Moses.1 When the Jewish tradition does little else than collect the opinions of doctors who lived well within the Christian era, how can it be by Moses? To this question there is a very practical answer. The Mohammedan tradition goes back to Mohammed; the Jewish tradition cannot be less respectable in its line than the other. Since Moses is to the Jews what Mohammed is to the Moslems, the Talmud must go back to Moses. This argument carried the day.2 D. S. Margoliouth. (To be concluded.) 1 Salmon Ben Jerucham, in Fiirsts Litteraturblatt des Orients, 1846. 2 In the document printed by Gallandius, ii. 329, the Mishnah is said not to be by Moses. Cf. Maimonides, I.e. 196. NEW YORK....
| ISBN-13 | 9781152907287 |
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| ISBN-10 | 115290728X |
| Weight | 0.88 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.61 In |
| List Price | $23.65 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 268 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-01-01 |
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