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Babylonian Talmud, Book 10: History of the Talmud, tr. by Michael L. Rodkinson, [1918], at sacred-texts.com


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CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.

 

PAGE

PREFACE

v

INTRODUCTION

1

CHAPTER I.

 

THE ORIGIN OF THE NAME "TALMUD." THE SAMARITANS. ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES. THE SADDUCEES

5

CHAPTER II.

 

THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TALMUD DURING THE LAST CENTURY OF THE SECOND TEMPLE'S EXISTENCE (i.e. THE FIRST A.C.) SHEMAIA. ABTALIAN. HILLEL. SHAMMAI. THE PRINCES (NASIS) OF ISRAEL. R. JOHANAN B. ZAKKAL. SANHEDRIN OF JAMNIA. THE JEWISH CHRISTIANS

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CHAPTER III.

 

HE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE. THE FALL OF BETHEL. THE MASSACRE OF THE SAGES OF THE TALMUD, TILL THE WRITING OF THE MISHNA IN THE BEGINNING OF THE THIRD CENTURY

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CHAPTER IV.

 

THE THIRD CENTURY. THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE MISHNAS. THE TALMUDIC COLLEGES OF PALESTINE AND BABYLONIA.

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CHAPTER V.

 

THE TALMUD OF JERUSALEM, THE TALMUD OF BABYLONIA, THE CHARACTER OF THEIR HALAKHA AND HAGADA, THE DATES OF THEIR COMPLETION AND THEIR SYSTEMATIZATION

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CHAPTER VI.

 

THE PERSECUTIONS OF THE TALMUD IN THE PERSIAN AND BYZANTINE EMPIRES IN THE SIXTH CENTURY AFTER THE CLOSE OF THE TALMUD

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CHAPTER VII.

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THE EIGHTH CENTURY. THE DOMINION OF THE GAONIM. THE OPPOSITION OF THE KARAITES. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A SECT OF THAT NAME

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CHAPTER VIII.

 

ISLAM AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE TALMUD

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CHAPTER IX.

 

THE VICTORY OF KARAISM OVER THE SPIRITUAL DOMINION OF THE TALMUD AND THE MIND OF THE JEWISH NATION. THE LAST GAONIM AT SURA AND PUMBEDITHA. THE CENTRE OF TALMUDIC STUDY TRANSFERRED FROM MESOPOTAMIA TO SPAIN, THE SCHOLARS OF KAIRUBAN. THE PERIOD OF THE GREATEST DIFFUSION OF TALMUDIC STUDY

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CHAPTER X.

 

THE SPANISH WRITERS. A BRIEF SURVEY OF THEIR WRITINGS RELATING TO THE TALMUD

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CHAPTER XI.

 

THE SCHOLARS OF GERMANY AND OF NORTHERN FRANCE, AND WHAT THEY CONTRIBUTED TO THE STUDIES OF THE TALMUD

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CHAPTER XII.

 

THE DOCTORS OF FRANCE. AUTHORS OF THE TOSPHOTH

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CHAPTER XIII.

 

RELIGIOUS DISPUTES OF ALL PERIODS

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CHAPTER XIV.

 

REUCHLIN, PFEFFERKORN, AND THE TALMUD IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES

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CHAPTER XV.

 

POLEMICS WITH MUSSULMANS AND THE DISPUTES WITH THE FRANKISTS

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CHAPTER XVI.

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THE PERSECUTIONS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, THE HEAD OF WHOM WAS JOHANN ANDREAS EISENMENGER

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CHAPTER XVII.

 

THE POLEMICS AND THE ATTACKS UPON THE TALMUD IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

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CHAPTER XVIII.

 

THE AFFAIR OF RHOLING-BLOCK

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CHAPTER XIX.

 

EXILARCHS; THE TALMUD AT THE STAKE AND ITS DEVELOPMENT AT THE PRESENT TIME

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APPENDIX A.

 

NOS. 1 TO 18 CONTAINS EIGHTEEN EXPLANATORY NOTES TO THE TEXT

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NO. 19 CONTAINS AN EXTRACT OF THE CONCLUSION OF OUR REVIEW TO DR. KOPF'S BOOK, MENTIONED IN TEXT

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NO. 20 CONTAINS A TRANSLATION OF A FEW PAGES OF OUR BOOK, "DER SCHULCHAN ARUCH UND SEINE BEZIEHUNGEN ZU DEN JUDEN UND NICHTJUDEN," CONCERNING THE TRIAL BEFORE THE "LANDESGERICHTE," AT MÜNSTER, DEC. 10, 1883, ABOUT THE ACCUSATION OF THE TALMUD AND SCHULCHAN ARUCH

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NO. 21 LETTER OF THE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

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NO. 22 JEWISH ENCYCLOPÆDIA

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APPENDIX B.

 

CRITICISM TO CHAPTER VII. (KARAITES). THE BELIEFS OF SADDUCEES, KARAITES, AND OF THE REFORMED JEWS, AND ALSO ABOUT RESURRECTION

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