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History of the Jewish Nation After the Destruction of Jerusalem Under Titus by Rev History of the Jewish Nation after the Destruction of Jerusalem under Titus by Rev. ALFRED EDERSHEIM, M.A., D.D., Ph.D. a Grace Notes study Grace Notes – Warren Doud, editor http://www.gracenotes.info Jewish Nation after the Destruction of Jerusalem 2 History of the Jewish Nation after the Destruction of Jerusalem under Titus by Rev. ALFRED EDERSHEIM, M.A., D.D., Ph.D. Table of Contents Preface to the Third Edition ................................................................................................................................................ 3 Author’s Preface ....................................................................................................................................................................... 3 Editorial Note ............................................................................................................................................................................ 5 Chapter 1 – The Hebrew Commonwealth ..................................................................................................................... 6 Chapter 2 – Closing Scenes of the Jewish War of Independence ....................................................................... 18 Chapter 3 – The Dispersed of Israel ............................................................................................................................... 27 Chapter 4 – Political and Religious State of the Jews after the Destruction of Jerusalem ....................... 44 Chapter 5 – Internal History of the Synagogue from the Return of the Captivity to the Destruction of Jerusalem .................................................................................................................................................................................. 53 Chapter 6 – History of the Synagogue from the Destruction of Jerusalem to the Jewish War of Liberation ................................................................................................................................................................................. 67 Chapter 7 – The Last Jewish War under Bar Cochba .............................................................................................. 87 Chapter 8 – State of the Synagogue after the Last Jewish War ........................................................................ 101 Chapter 9 - Social Condition of Palestine .................................................................................................................. 119 Chapter 10 – Progress of Arts and Sciences among the Hebrews .................................................................. 155 Poetry and Music ................................................................................................................................................... 155 The Eighteen Berachas .......................................................................................................................................... 162 Scientific Knowledge ............................................................................................................................................. 166 Jewish Law ............................................................................................................................................................. 170 Chapter 11 – Theological Science and Religious Belief in Palestine .............................................................. 180 Interpretation of Scripture .................................................................................................................................... 180 Mysticism and Philo .............................................................................................................................................. 191 Mysticism and Philo ................................................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined. The Essenes ........................................................................................................................................................... 199 Jewish Theology .................................................................................................................................................... 200 Chapter 12 – The Patriarchate under the Last Pagan Emperors .................................................................... 209 Chapter 13 – Extinction of the Patriarchate and Final Dispersion of the Jews ......................................... 226 Appendix I. The Great Synagogue ................................................................................................................................ 242 Appendix II. The President of the Sanhedrin .......................................................................................................... 244 Appendix III. The Site of Bethar .................................................................................................................................... 245 Appendix IV. Rabbinical Exegesis ................................................................................................................................ 246 Jewish Nation after the Destruction of Jerusalem 3 Preface to the Third Edition consequent upon his conversion to Christianity, it is indeed remarkable. The years which have elapsed since the death of Dr. Edersheim have served to enhance rather In preparing a new edition, two objects had to than to diminish the sense of his loss. He had be kept in view. It was of course essential to go more than one contemporary who was, like through Dr. Edersheim's own later work, so as himself, at once Jew and Christian, and, like to take account of every modification or himself, had command of the common ground development of opinion in the author himself; of both. In particular, there was a group and it was also desirable to check the results by gathered round the great Franz Delitzsch, Dr. comparison with the collateral literature which Ferdinand Weber, whose System der altsytia has appeared since 1856, and especially with jogalen palastinischen Theologie, published the great work of Schurer, Geschichte der posthumously under the editorship of Delitzsch judischen Volkes im Zeitalter Jesu Christi, now and Schnedermann, is a work of the highest translated into English (first edition, 1874; utility, and Dr. J. H. E. Biesenthal, who left second edition, 1886-1890; Eng. translation, behind an edition of the Epistle to the Hebrews, 1885-1890). Dr. Schiirer and Dr. Edersheim which contains some information not accessible may be said to be the complements of each to everyone. At Christiania there was Dr. C. P. other : with the one the centre of gravity rests Caspari, a giant of learning, whose field of labor in the Greek and Roman sources, and in the was, however, less characteristic of his origin. balanced judgment of the trained Western philologist; with the other, in the Talmud and In England we had also here and there a the inborn imaginative sympathy with every Christian rabbi. But now all these, or nearly all, side of Jewish life. I hope and believe that are gone; and though there still remain some something of these double excellences will be distinguished Jewish scholars who treat of found in this new edition as it has been things Christian, and some distinguished prepared by Mr. H. A. White, to whose loyalty Christian scholars who treat of things Jewish, I and care I gladly bear witness. know not where we could point either to the Jew whose Christian profession opened to him Thanks are also due to the publishers, who, the secret of the New Testament, or to the although they had acquired possession of the Christian whose Jewish birth gave him the stereotyped plates, liberally consented to almost indispensable key to the stores of the forego the use of these, and to issue the work in Talmud. a form which is altogether improved, and, in its present shape, a fitting memorial to its author. For these reasons, every work of Dr. Edersheim's is invested with peculiar value; W. Sanday. Oxford, November 1895. and it will, I think, be felt that this applies in a Author’s Preface high degree to the work which is now once Foe many years have I cherished the desire of more offered to the public. The first edition writing a History of the Jewish Nation. It is appeared in 1856, and was quickly followed by remarkable, that a work apparently of such a second. The book was written some ten years interest and importance to the Christian after the author's admission to the Scottish Free student should not long ere this have been Church, and when he was engaged in active supplied. It is my deliberate conviction that parochial work at Old Aberdeen. A brief Jewish History casts much light on the account of this period is given in the Memoir evangelical accounts in the Gospels, on the prefixed to the collection of Thoughts and Book of Acts, and on later Ecclesiastical History, Aphorisms published after his death under the both in its records of the spread of Christianity, title Tohu-wa-Bohu (Longmans, 1890). As the and of the origin and development of heretical work of a young man of thirty, whose career sects. had been broken by the struggles and sacrifices The illustrations which Jewish History affords of the New Testament are not confined to a Grace Notes – Warren Doud, editor http://www.gracenotes.info Jewish Nation after the Destruction of Jerusalem 4 description of the circumstances, social misbelief to its source and origin, and to
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