Jewish Literature From The Eighth To The Eighteenth Century
Subtitle: With An Introduction On Talmud And Midrash : A Historical Essay From The German Of M. Steinschneider
By: rev. throughout by the author.
Publisher: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts
Published: 1857
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
Subjects: Jewish literature -- History and criticism.
Notes: Translation by W. Spottiswoodeof Jüdische Literatur (in Ersch & Gruber's Allgemeine Encyklopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste, Leipzig, 1850, 2d section, v. 27, p. 357-471).

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: § 1.] Division or the Subject 1; title: PERIOD I.; title: FROM THE TIME OF EZRATO THAT WHEN THE INFLUENCE OF ARABIAN PHILOSOPHY BEGAN TO BE FELT, AND EUROPE FIRST APPEARED ON THE SCENE.; title: From the Fifth Century B.C. to the Seventh Century A. D. Inclusive.; title: § 2.] Development 2; title: § 3.] Midrash 5; title: § 4.] Halacha 9; title: § 5.] Haggada 28; title: § 6.] Liturgy 54; title: § 7.] The earliest Jewish Literature of Arabia 59; title: PERIOD II.; title: FROM THE BEGINNING OF ARABIAN SCIENCE TO THE EXILB OF THE JEWS FROM SPAIN.; title: From the Eighth to the Fifteenth Century inclusive.; title: $ 8.] Introduction and General View 60; title: § 9.] Halacha -67; title: § 10.] Histories of Learned Men. — Chronicles 75; title: § 11.] Conflict between Science and Haggada 82; title: § 12.] Theology and Philosophy 94; title: § 13.] Mysteries and Kabbala 104; title: § 14.] Karaitic Literature 115; title: § 15.] Polemics 122; title: § 16.] Hebrew Philology 131; title: § 17.] Exegesis 141; title: § 18.] Poetry, Rhetoric, Stylistic 146; title: § 19.] Liturgical Poetry (Pijjutim) 157; title: § 20.] Non-Liturgical Poetry 166; title: § 21.] Mathematical Sciences 179; title: § 22.] Medicine and Natural History 193; title: PERIOD III.; title: From the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century inclusive.; title: § 23.] Transition 203; title: § 24.] Polemical and Apologetic Writings 211; title: § 25.] Halacha 213; title: § 26.] Homiletics, Ethics, Religious Philosophy, and Kabbala 220; title: § 27.] The Bible and Hebrew Language 232; title: § 28.] Poetry and Liturgy 241; title: § 29.] History, Geography, Antiquities, and Miscellanies 250; title: § 30.] Mathematics and Physical Science 260; title: Notes 267