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CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV

MEDIEVAL HEBREW

 

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INTRODUCTION--The Breadth and Persistency of Hebrew Learning

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I.--THE MIDRASH, or Preserved Tradition

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    The Tanhuma Midrash (about A.D. 500)

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    Bereshith Rabba

42

    Exodus Rabba

69

    Leviticus Rabba

90

    Numbers Rabba

105

    Deuteronomy Rabba

121

    Ashmedai, the King of Demons

133

II.--THE KABBALAH, or Secret Tradition (from unknown date to A.D. 1305) 1

145

    The Book of Creation, or Sepher Yetzirah 1

164

    The Book of Concealed Mystery, or Sepher Dtzenioutha 1

181

    The Greater Holy Assembly 1

236

III.--RELIGIOUS POETRY

331

    The Poems of Avicebron or Ibn Gabirol (died A.D. 1058)

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    The Poems of Judah Halevi (A.D. 1080-1150)

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    Later Poets

352

IV.--THE BOOK CUSARI, The Story of a Lost Race

359

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V.--THE GREAT HEBREW PHILOSOPHERS

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    Commentaries of Rabbi Ben Ezra (A.D. 1092-1167)

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    Advice of Maimonides (1135-1204)

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VI.--THE TRAVELS OF BENJAMIN OF TUDELA (A.D. 1160-1173)

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

429

 

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ILLUSTRATIONS IN VOLUME IV

 

FACING PAGE

The Tomb of Hiram

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The Mosque of Abraham

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Kabbalistic Diagram of the Soul

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An Ancient Synagogue in Palestine

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