A Rabbinic Anthology (Cambridge Library Collection - Religion)

Cambridge University Press, 7/12/2012
EAN 9781108048125, ISBN10: 1108048129

Paperback, 966 pages, 21.6 x 14 x 5.5 cm
Language: English

Founder of Liberal Judaism in England, Claude Goldsmid Montefiore (1858–1938) wrote extensively on Jewish and Christian theology and ethics. His final book, published in 1938 and co-edited with Herbert Loewe (1882–1940), remains one of the most comprehensive and authoritative collections available of Rabbinic literature dating from 100 to 500 CE. The edition, which provides extensive historical and lexical context, features two introductions, one from Montefiore espousing a Liberal perspective and the other from Loewe speaking as an Orthodox Jew. Together, they argue for 'a common foundation, a common past, and a common future' linking their outlooks. Their anthology in turn models this co-operation, offering more than 1,600 rabbinical extracts, and covering topics including the nature of God, the Commandments and the Law, prayer and charity. Both a compilation of theological writings and a meditation on theology itself, this work remains a pre-eminent text of Jewish religious scholarship.

Preface
Introduction
Introduction and prefatory remarks
System of transcription, abbreviations, etc.
1. The nature and character of God and his relations with man
2. God's love for Israel
3. Man's nature and God's grace
4. Israel's love for God
5. The Law
6. Study, practice and goodness
7. The Commandments, the Sabbath, and the Law
8. Reward, merit and atonement
9. Divine mercy and divine judgment, idolatry, martyrdom
10. The importance of motive or intention. Kawwanah, and Lishmah. The love, the fear, and the praise of God
11. The doctrine of the evil inclination. Righteousness and sin
12. Man's repentance and God's compassion
13. Hope and faith. Miracles
14. On prayer
15. Justice, honesty, truth in oaths
16. On charity
17. On industry and independence. On poverty and riches
18. Hospitality, courtesy and good manners
19. Pity, forgiveness and love
20. On humility and pride
21. Various ethical conceptions
22. The family
(a) father and mother
23. The family
(b) the wife
24. The family
(c) children
25. Asceticism
26. Peace
27. This life in comparison with the next life
28. On sufferings
29. The gentiles
30. On proselytes
31. The life to come
resurrection and judgment
Excursus I. The use of the adjectives 'Jewish' and 'Christian' in England
Excursus II. Rabbinical and early Christian ethics R. H. Snape
Notes
Excursus III. The Rabbis, their 'generations' and their countries
List of rabbis
Excursus IV. The dating of Rabbinic material
Table of dates of extracts
Glossary
List of editions used
List of biblical passages
List of Greek and Latin passages
List of Rabbinic passages
General index.