The legacy of Israel
By: Essays by Sir George Adam Smith [and others] Planned by I.Abrahams and edited by E.R. Bevan & C.Singer. With an introd.by the Master of Balliol
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1944
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 551
Subjects: Jews; Civilization; 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.