| Chapters on Jewish Literature Contributor(s): Abrahams, Israel (Author) |
|
 |
ISBN: 1544607903 ISBN-13: 9781544607900 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $7.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Jewish - Social Science |
| Physical Information: 0.26" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.38 lbs) 122 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: These twenty-five short chapters on Jewish Literature open with the fall of Jerusalem in the year 70 of the current era, and end with the death of Moses Mendelssohn in 1786. Thus the period covered extends over more than seventeen centuries. Yet, long as this period is, it is too brief. To do justice to the literature of Judaism even in outline, it is clearly necessary to include the Bible, the Apocrypha, and the writings of Alexandrian Jews, such as Philo. Only by such an inclusion can the genius of the Hebrew people be traced from its early manifestations through its inspired prime to its brilliant after-glow in the centuries with which this little volume deals. |