LITERATURE OF THE EAST

VOLUME III

ANCIENT HEBREW

THE EARLIEST REMAINS

THE TALMUD

In Translations by

THE AMERICAN REVISION COMMITTEE OF THE HOLY BIBLE; W.
H. BENNETT, Litt.D., Professor of Hebrew in New College, London;
H. POLANO, former Professor of Hebrew in Maimonides College; Rev.
JOSEPH BARCLAY, LL.D., Bishop of Jerusalem.

With a Brief Bibliography by

A. W. OKO, Librarian of Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati.

With an Historical Survey and Descriptions by
PROF. CHARLES F. HORNE, PH.D.

PARKE, AUSTIN, AND LIPSCOMB, INC.

NEW YORK

LONDON

PJ 408 S3 1917 1.3

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"Let there be light."—GENESIS I, 3.

There never was a false god, nor was there ever really a false religion, unless you call a child a false man."-MAX MÜLLER.

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CONTENTS OF VOLUME III

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ANCIENT HEBREW

INTRODUCTION-The Old Testament and the Tal-

mud: The Two Mighty Treasure-Houses of

Hebraic Thought

I. THE EARLIEST REMAINS

An Antediluvian Chant (age unknown)

Biblical Songs (about 1200 B.C.)

The Moabite Stone (850 B.C.).

The Inscription of Siloam (before 587 B.C.)

THE TALMUD

II. THE MISHNA, OR ELDER TALMUD (219 A.D.)

III. THE GEMARA, OR YOUNGER TALMUD (425 a.d.)

The Deliverance from Egypt

The Ten Plagues

The Death of Moses

The Book of Esther

King Solomon the Wise

[V. THE HAGGADA, OR TALES AND TRADITIONS OF THE

Tales of the Rabbis .

Proverbs and Sayings of the Rabbis

On Biblical History .

V.—THE HALACHA, OR RULES OF THE LAW.