Chapters on Jewish Literature eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 153 pages of information about Chapters on Jewish Literature.

Chapters on Jewish Literature eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 153 pages of information about Chapters on Jewish Literature.

Tanchuma, a Midrashic work, 58.

Tannaim, the, teachers of the Mishnah, 22.
  four generations of, 23.

Targum Onkelos, Aramaic translation of the Pentateuch, 27.

Tarshish, by Moses Ibn Ezra, 114.

“Teacher of Knowledge, The,” part of the Shulchan Aruch, 239-240.

Teharoth, order of the Mishnah, 31.

Teshuboth. See “Letters,” the; “Responses,” the.

“Theologico-Political Tractate,” by Spinoza, 244, 251.

Tiberias, centre of Jewish learning, 20.

Todros Abulafia, Kabbalist, 171.

Toledo, Jewish literary centre, 112.
  cosmopolitanism of, 126.

“Topaz, The,” by Moses Ibn Ezra, 114.

Torah, the. See Pentateuch, the.

Tossafists, the, French Talmudists, 160-161.

Tossafoth, Additions, 161.

“Touchstone, The,” by Kalonymos, 185.

Tractates of the Mishnah, 31.

Tradition, the Jewish, investigated at Jamnia, 21. 
  Sherira on, 70.
  reaction against, 76.
  See Mishnah, the.

Translations, value of, 144.
  made by Jews, 144-145, 146, 149-151, 153-154, 155-156.

“Travels,” by Petachiah of Ratisbon, 204.

Troyes, Rashi at, 122.

“Two Tables of the Covenant, The,” by Isaiah Hurwitz, 176.

Tyre, Jehuda Halevi in, 129.

Usha, centre of Jewish learning, 20.

“Valley of Tears, The,” by Joseph Cohen, 218, 219.

Venice, Abarbanel in, 227.

Vindiciae Judeorum, by Manasseh ben Israel, 244, 249, 258.

“Vineyard,” the. See Jamnia.

Vossius, friend of Manasseh ben Israel, 245.

“Wars of the Jews, The,” by Josephus, 34.
  the language of, 37.

“Wars of the Lord, The,” by Gersonides, 141.

“Wars of the Lord, The,” by Salman, the son of Yerucham, 78.

Wessely, N.H., pedagogue, 210.

“Wolf and the two Hounds, The,” fable, 65.

“Wolf at the Well, The,” fable, 65.

“Work of Tobiah, The,” by Tobiah Cohen, 209.

Worms, Rashi at, 122.

Yad Hachazaka. See “Strong Hand, The.”

Yalkut, collected Midrashim, 58.

Yedaiah Bedaressi, writer, 191-192.

Yeshuoth Meshicho, by Abarbanel, 229.

Yoreh Deah, part of the Shulchan Aruch, 240.

Yuchasin, by Abraham Zacuto, 216.

Zabara, satirist, 127.

Zacut, Moses, dramatist, 246.

Zeena u-Reena, homiletical work, 230.

Zeira, Amora, 46.

Zemach, the son of Paltoi, Gaon and lexicographer, 70.

Zemach David, by David Gans, 220-221.

Zeraim, order of the Mishnah, 31.

Zevaoth. See Ethical Wills.

Zicareo, character in Samuel Usque’s poem, 218.

Zion, odes to, by Jehuda Halevi, 109, 129-130.

Zohar, the, Kabbalistic work, 172-174.
  style and language of, 172-173.
  contents of, 173-174. 
  Christian ideas in, 174.
  importance of, 175.

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