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Excerpt from The Biblical Lessons: A Chapter on Biblical ArchaeologyClose investigation extending over fifteen years ripened in me the conviction that the Samaritans have preserved for us in an almost fossilised state customs which go back to the time of the Second Temple. They represent a phase in Jewry of Jewish rites, of Jewish practices, of Jewish religious conceptions and Views, which one may call pre-talmudic, pre-rabbinic, which concur ...

Excerpt from History of the Ancient Synagogue of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews, the Cathedral Synagogue of the Jews in England, Situate in Bevis Marks: A Memorial Volume Written Specially to Celebrate the Two-Hundredth Anniversary of Its Inauguration, 1701-1901It is to be the forerunner of a more elaborate work, treating of the history of the Sephardim in England.Imperfections which are sure to occur in this History will, as far as possible,...

Excerpt from Jewish Folk-Lore in the Middle AgesLess numerous are the romances of chivalry in Jewish literature. When chivalry ¿ourished, the Jews were too much acquainted with the real character of brutality inscribed with fire and blood in the pages of Jewish suffering, to see the charm with which later times endowed oh at period and the heroes thereof.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic boo...

They have... books with these terrible, awe-inspiring Names... they know that the use of these mysterious Names, without due and careful preparation, brings with it calamity and premature death. -from the introduction How much ancient wisdom was lost in the medieval years! here laments Moses Gaster, one of the most prominent Jewish theologians and folklorists of the late 19th century. In 1896, he translated a fragmentary relic of Gnostic liter...

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Excerpt from The Sibyl and the Dream of One Hundred Suns: An Old ApocryphonDr. J. Schleifer1 has now published for the first time these Oriental texts of the Sibylline apocryphon in Arabic and Ethiopian. One of them is 'a Karshuni text, of course Arabic, but written in Syriac characters. The editor confines himself primarily to a critical edition of these various texts, none of them very old, and yet each one interesting in its own way. The Ka...

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed w...