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A TALMUDIC MISCELUZLANY; 
OR, 
A THOUSAND AND ONE EXTRACTS FROM THE TALMUD, 
THE MIDRASHIM, AND THE KALBBALAL. 
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Compiled and Translated 
By: Pie bcoakh EAR-S+HOsN: 
Author of ‘* Genesis according to the Talmud,” ‘‘ Extracts from the Talmud,”’ &e. 
With Introductory Preface by the 
Rev. AF2 “We FAR RAR, YD Di Paneoe 
Chaplain in Ordinary to Her Majesty, and Canon of Westminster. 
“ He (Mr. Hershon) is, I believe, fitted for the task which he has undertaken 
by an almost life-long familiarity with Talmudic literature; and the adequacy of 
his version, no less than the extent of his 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 for 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 from 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. For 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 tts voluminous pages 
im order to ascertain for himself their character and contents. No competent student 
can vise without some advantage from the perusal of these pages.” —EXTRACT FROM 
THE REY. CANON FARRAR’S INTRODUCTORY PREFACE. 
“T admire the indomitable perseverance, the unselfish devotion, the Argus-eyed tn- 
Sight, the profundity and accuracy which meet my eye in perusing the pages of your 
Lalmudic Miscellany. Nor do I find in it any tendency influencing your reproduc- 
tion. We love Israel and love also Fewish literature—this love which is not any 
lon ger distinct from our love of Fesus, ts our literary impulse. May God Almighty 
continue his blessing on your labours. I shall certainly continue as a family friend, as 
a were, to take an interest in your books, those spiritual children of yours.”— 
EXTRACT FROM A LETTER TO THE AUTHOR FROM PRoF. DELITZSCH. 
“To the vast majority of English readers, its substance will be almost entirely 
new. I can only say that it has been full of instruction for myself. Vou appear to 
me to have amply redeemed your promise of steering a middle course between the 
trrational abuse and the extravagant eulogy of which the Talmud has been made the 
subject in our own, as in former days; and you have done this by letting the Talmud 
Speak for itself with a fulness of which there ts, so Jar as I know, no other example in 
English literature. As I vead your pages I am struck with the many-sidedness of 
this strange product of the old Fewish world ; its wisdom and tts Jolly, tts pathos and 
zis coarseness, its touches of true moral beauty, and tts grotesgue or repulsive pedantry 
—are all in turn represented.” EXTRACT FROM A LETTER TO THE AUTHOR FROM 
THE REy. Canon Lippon. 
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