The legacy of Israel
By: essays by Sir George Adam Smith, Edwyn Bevan, F. C. Burkitt [and others] ... Planned by the late I. Abrahams and edited by Edwyn R. Bevan & Charles Singer. With an introduction by the Master of Balliol.
Contributors: Singer, Charles Joseph, 1876-1960, joint editor.
Publisher: The Clarendon Press
Published: 1927
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 551
Subjects: Jews -- Civilization; Jews -- History
Notes: Bibliography at end of some of the essays.
Table of contents: title: Prologue, by A. D. Lindsay.; title: The Hebrew genius as exhibited in the Old Testament, by the Very Rev. Sir G. A. Smith.; title: Hellenistic Judaism, by E. R. Bevan.; title: The debt of Christianity to Judaism, by F. C. Burkitt.; title: The influence of Judaism upon Jews in the period from Hillel to Mendelssohn, by the Rev. R. T. Herford.; title: The influence of Judaism on Islam, by the Rev. A. Guillaume.; title: The Jewish factor in medieval thought, by C. Singer and Dorothea W. Singer.; title: Hebrew scholarship in the middle ages among Latin Christians, by C. Singer.; title: Hebrew studies in the reformation period and after: their place and influence, by the Rev. G. H. Box.; title: The influence of Judaism on western law, by N. Isaacs.; title: The influence of the Old Testament on Puritanism, by the Rev. W. B. Selbie.; title: Jewish thought in the modern world, by L. Roth.; title: Influence of the Hebrew Bible on European laguages, by A. Meillet.; title: The legacy in modern literature, by L. Magnus.; title: Epilogue, by C. G. Montefiore.; title: Glossary.