Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1890 edition. Extrait: ... those days, the slight exclusiveness of their religious aspirations may well be forgiven to them. 4. A Specimen Planet.--Astronomers, before they begin to study the orbit of any particular star, like to be familiar with the general aspect of the heavens; and ...
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Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1890 edition. Extrait: ... those days, the slight exclusiveness of their religious aspirations may well be forgiven to them. 4. A Specimen Planet.--Astronomers, before they begin to study the orbit of any particular star, like to be familiar with the general aspect of the heavens; and students of history, who wish to learn about any special period or personage, have to follow much the same course, in order that they may be able to fill in for themselves the background to any prominent figure. The general condition of the Jewish people in the chief countries of Europe during the Middle Ages is now, perhaps, sufficiently familiar to us for this plan to be possible, and, as each star peeps out from its own particular corner of the dark sky, we can picture somewhat accurately the nature of the surrounding darkness which it illumined. Thus, the end of the ninth century, and the country Egypt, recalls to memory the tempestuous close of a long period of literary activity. The labours of the Gaonim were becoming, by that date, intermittent and interrupted, and Jehuda the Blind, one of the most active of them all, was already nearly a hundred years dead, when in 849 the Sultan Mutavakel1 imposed those intolerant and degrading disabilities on the Jews of the East which were the beginning of the end. Oppressed from without, and divided by jealousies from within, the schools of Babylon gradually closed, one after the other, and the scholars migrated to Egypt and to Spain. In 892, to one of these settlers in Upper Egypt there was born a child who grew up and grew famous under the name and title of Gaon Saadia.' He became head of the college at Sora, and was a great authority on all theological matters. He translated the Bible...
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Add this copy of Outlines of Jewish History to cart. $27.00, good condition, Sold by Austin Book Shop LLC rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Richmond Hill, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1890 by Jewish Publication Society of America.
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Good (with wear to covers). No Jacket. 388pp Touches on Palestine, Maccabean War, War with Rome. Book I: In the Shadow of the Sword. Book II: Darkness. Jews in Spain, in Central Europe, in England. Book III: Starlight. Book IV: Dawn. Each book has several chapters. (loc 639/1)
