William Brown
Published: 2017-07-23
Total Pages: 702
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Excerpt from Antiquities of the Jews, Vol. 2 of 2: Carefully Compiled From Authentic Sources, and Their Customs Illustrated From Modern Travels Sect. II. Some Account of their principal Books. The Old Testament divided into the Pentateuch, former prophets, lat m prophets, and H iogra he. Account of the origin Of chapters and verses. He ks referred to in Scripture, but at present lost. The Septuagint: Josephus. Of the TM udieal writi the following are the most remarkable. 1st, The Mi 'm, or Commentaries. 2d, The Midi-as chim Rebbot, or Great Commentaries. 8d, The Pirke Abbot, or Sentences of the Fathers. 4th, The Mishna, its ori 'n, author, and contents described. 5th, The Gemara. Th, The Talmud. 7th, The T um. 8th, The Commentary on the Old Testament by A D Em. 9th, Maimonides. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.