Medieval Hebrew; The Midrash; The Kabbalah (Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East, Vol. 4) (Sacred Books & Early Literature of the East)
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: September 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780766100084
Subjects: Religion: general; Religion - Judaism; Literary Criticism; Judaism - Kabbalah & Mysticism; Judaism - Sacred Writings
First sentence: AMONG the thousand odds and ends of wisdom and fantasy stored up for us within the Midrash is the statement that all of the Jewish law would have been written out for the people, as was the Torah, or Five Bible Books of Moses, only "God saw that the Torah would eventually be translated into Greek, and published as though it were the law entrusted to Greeks," meaning Gentiles.