The Talmud: What It Is and What It Knows About Jesus and His Followers (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from The Talmud: What It Is and What It Knows About Jesus and His Followers

Brought to its final form before the close of the second century - not to say in later Rab binic writings, for a true' representation of the Messianic doctrine before and at the Christian era?

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Excerpt from The Talmud: What It Is and What It Knows About Jesus and His Followers

It is a saying of Monsieur Rénan that "in the history of the origins of Christianity, the Talmud has hitherto been far too much neglected." His idea is that the New Testament can only be understood by the light of the Talmud, while the present work will prove that many things in the Talmud can only be understood by the light of the New Testament and the history of the Church. To do this we have divided the matter into two parts. The first tries to show what the Talmud is, by giving a succinct history of the development of Jewish traditionalism, which culminated in the Talmud, "that wonderful monument of human industry, human wisdom, and human folly," as Milman calls it; and in order to dispel erroneous views concerning the Talmud, we have arrayed the opinions of such scholars as Milman, Farrar, Geikie, Schaff, Delitzsch and others, whom no one will accuse of partiality. As a connecting link we have inserted those passages of the Talmud which treat of the Messiah, because we believe that their contents were more or less influenced by Christian thought, and that they do not express the views of the Jews concerning the Messiah before and at the Christian era.

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.