Judaism

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Ti­tle: Ju­daism

Au­thor: Is­rael Abra­hams

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JU­DAISM

By IS­RAEL ABRA­HAMS, M.A.

READ­ER IN TAL­MU­DIC AND RAB­BINIC LIT­ER­ATURE

UNI­VER­SI­TY OF CAM­BRIDGE

FORE­WORD

The writ­er has at­tempt­ed in this vol­ume to take up a few of the most char­ac­ter­is­tic points in Jew­ish doc­trine and prac­tice, and to ex­plain some of the var­ious phas­es through which they have passed, since the first cen­turies of the Chris­tian era.

The pre­sen­ta­tion is prob­ably much less de­tached than is the case with oth­er vol­umes in this se­ries. But the dif­fer­ence was scarce­ly avoid­able. The writ­er was not ex­pound­ing a re­li­gious sys­tem which has no re­la­tion to his own life. On the con­trary, the writ­er is him­self a Jew, and thus is deeply con­cerned per­son­al­ly in the mat­ters dis­cussed in the book.

The read­er must be warned to keep this fact in mind through­out. On the one hand, the book must suf­fer a loss of ob­jec­tiv­ity; but, on the oth­er hand, there may be some com­pen­sat­ing gain of in­ten­si­ty. The au­thor trusts, at all events, that, though he has not writ­ten with in­dif­fer­ence, he has es­caped the pit­fall of un­due par­tial­ity.

I. A.

CON­TENTS

I. THE LEGA­CY FROM THE PAST

II. RE­LI­GION AS LAW

III. AR­TI­CLES OF FAITH

IV. SOME CON­CEPTS OF JU­DAISM

V. SOME OB­SER­VANCES OF JU­DAISM

VI. JEW­ISH MYS­TI­CISM

VII. ES­CHA­TOL­OGY

VI­II. THE SUR­VIVAL OF JU­DAISM

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