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A TALMUDIC MISCELLANY; 
OR, 
A THOUSAND AND ONE EXTRACTS FROM THE TALMUD, | 
THE MIDRASHIM, AND THE KABBALAH, 5 
Compiled and Translated 
By P. |. HERSHON, 
Author of ‘‘ Genesis according to the Talmud,” ‘‘ Extracts from the Talmud,” &c. 
With Introductory Preface by the 
Rev. F. W. FARRAR, D.D., F.R.S.; 5 
Chaplain in Ordinary to Her Majesty, and Canon of Westminster. 4 : 
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“7am quite sure that all students in reading the Talmud will find many side- 
lights for the interpretation, not only of the Old, but even of the New Testament. 
Not only does the Talmud furnish many interesting tlustrations of the thoughts and 
words of the apostles, but there are cases in which the key to the true solution of | 
difficulties, and the true interpretation of phrases and expressions, can only be found | 
in the records of the Rabbinic schools. For the greatest of the apostles had been 
trained from childhood in this Hebrew lore; and even those of the twelve who had | 
been despised by the hierarchy as ‘simple and unlearned’ were tn some measure | 
familiar with it, because even in the days of Christ the views of those elder Rabbis | 
which are enshrined tn the Mishna and Gemara, had passed into the common aimo-' 
Sphere of Fewish thought. 7 
“ For these reasons I hail the labours of Mr. Hershon. He is, I believe, fitted! 
Jor the task which he has undertaken by an almost life-long familiarity with Tal-| 
mudic literature; and the adequacy of his version, no less than the extent of has | 
knowledge, have been admitted not only by scholars so eminent as Dr. Delitzsch—| 
whose name should alone be a guarantee to theologians that Mr. Hershon is qualified| 
Sor his work—but also by the free admission of Fewish critics. And the reader may| 
accept his versions without suspicion, because, though they may not always be exempt 
Srom those imperfections which must remain in the best human work, yet they are not, 
directly controversial,and are merely intended to represent the Talmud exactly as he finds) 
it. Lor this reason the notes which he has appended have, for the most part, no other’ 
object than to elucidate the text. . . . . The reader will see Specimens of the 
Talmud exactly as he would do if he possessed a knowledge of Talmudic Hebrew,; 
and dipped at haphazard into its voluminous pages in order to ascertain Sor himself 
their character and contents. No competent student can rise without some advantage 
from the perusal of these pages.”—EXTRACT FROM THE REY. CANON FARRAR’S| 
INTRODUCTORY PREFACE. 5 
“To the vast majority of English readers, its substance will be almost entivel 
new: I can only say that it has been full of instruction Jor myself. You appear to 
me to have amply redeemed your promise of steering a middle course between th 
rational abuse and the extravagant eulogy of which the Talmud has been made the 
subject tn our own, as in former days ; and you have done this by letting the Talmud 
Speak for ttself with a fulness of which there is, so far as I know, no other example in 
English literature. As I read your pages I am struck with the many-sidedness of 
this strange product of the old Fewish world, its wisdom and its Jolly, tts pathos and, 
its coarseness, its touches of true moral beauty, and its grotesque or repulsive pedanti 
—are all in turn represented.” EXTRACT FROM A LETTER TO THE AUTHOR FROM 
THE REY. CaNon Lippon. : 
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