File:Jewish Literature From The Eighth To The Eighteenth Century - With An Introduction On Talmud And Midrash - A Historical Essay From The German Of M. Steinschneider (IA JewishLiteratureFrom).pdf

CONTENTS

§ 1.] Division or the Subject 1 PERIOD I. FROM THE TIME OF EZRATO THAT WHEN THE INFLUENCE OF ARABIAN PHILOSOPHY BEGAN TO BE FELT, AND EUROPE FIRST APPEARED ON THE SCENE. From the Fifth Century B.C. to the Seventh Century A. D. Inclusive. § 2.] Development 2 § 3.] Midrash 5 § 4.] Halacha 9 § 5.] Haggada 28 § 6.] Liturgy 54 § 7.] The earliest Jewish Literature of Arabia 59 PERIOD II. FROM THE BEGINNING OF ARABIAN SCIENCE TO THE EXILB OF THE JEWS FROM SPAIN. From the Eighth to the Fifteenth Century inclusive. $ 8.] Introduction and General View 60 § 9.] Halacha -67 § 10.] Histories of Learned Men. — Chronicles 75 § 11.] Conflict between Science and Haggada 82 § 12.] Theology and Philosophy 94 § 13.] Mysteries and Kabbala 104 § 14.] Karaitic Literature 115 § 15.] Polemics 122 § 16.] Hebrew Philology 131 § 17.] Exegesis 141 § 18.] Poetry, Rhetoric, Stylistic 146 § 19.] Liturgical Poetry (Pijjutim) 157 § 20.] Non-Liturgical Poetry 166 § 21.] Mathematical Sciences 179 § 22.] Medicine and Natural History 193 PERIOD III. From the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century inclusive. § 23.] Transition 203 § 24.] Polemical and Apologetic Writings 211 § 25.] Halacha 213 § 26.] Homiletics, Ethics, Religious Philosophy, and Kabbala 220 § 27.] The Bible and Hebrew Language 232 § 28.] Poetry and Liturgy 241 § 29.] History, Geography, Antiquities, and Miscellanies 250 § 30.] Mathematics and Physical Science 260 Notes 267

Translation by W. Spottiswoodeof Jüdische Literatur (in Ersch & Gruber's Allgemeine Encyklopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste, Leipzig, 1850, 2d section, v. 27, p. 357-471)

Includes bibliographical references and index