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Chapters on Jewish Literature (Annotated)
By Israel Abrahams
Length4h 29m
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This edition includes the following editor's introduction: Main Characteristics and Genres of Jewish Literature
First published in 1899, Israel Abrahams' “Chapters on Jewish Literature” is a comprehensive collection consisting of twenty-five short chapters on Jewish literature covering the period from the fall of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 to the death of the Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn in 1786.
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GenreHistory, Psychology, Spirituality and Religion
Length4 hrs 29 mins
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Publish dateFeb 15, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Main Characteristics and Genres of Jewish Literature
2Preface
3Chapter 1. The "Vineyard" At Jamnia
4Chapter 2. Flavius Josephus And The Jewish Sibyl
5Chapter 3. The Talmud
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6Chapter 4. The Midrash And Its Poetry
7Chapter 5. The Letters Of The Gaonim
8Chapter 6. The Karaitic Literature
9Chapter 7. The New-Hebrew Piyut
10Chapter 8. Saadiah Of Fayum
11Chapter 9. Dawn Of The Spanish Era
12Chapter 10. The Spanish-Jewish Poets (I)
13Chapter 11. Rashi And Alfassi
14Chapter 12. The Spanish-Jewish Poets (II)
15Chapter 13. Moses Maimonides
16Chapter 14. The Diffusion Of Science
17Chapter 15. The Diffusion Of Folk-Tales
18Chapter 16. Moses Nachmanides
19Chapter 17. The Zohar And Later Mysticism
20Chapter 18. Italian Jewish Poetry
21Chapter 19. Ethical Literature
22Chapter 20. Travellers' Tales
23Chapter 21. Historians And Chroniclers
24Chapter 22. Isaac Abarbanel
25Chapter 23. The Shulchan Aruch
26Chapter 24. Amsterdam In The Seventeenth Century
27Chapter 25. Moses Mendelssohn
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