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The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East, Vol. IV

Medieval Hebrew

featuring
THE MIDRASH

[1917]


This is an an etext of an early 20th Century anthology of translations of Medieval Hebrew religious texts. This is of interest because of the (abridged) translations of some Midrash texts, of which there are few public domain translations. This also contains a fascinating Middle East travelogue by a Jewish traveller in the 12th Century C.E., which also has an informal census of the Jewish population in various areas. This etext omits the section of the original book on the Kabbalah, which simply repeats an abridged copy of the material in The Kabbalah Unveiled, a complete etext of which can be found here

Update! (1/24/2003) I've finally tracked down and posted the source of the unattributed Midrash extracts in this anthology: see Tales and Maxims from the Midrash.


Title Page
Contents
Introduction

The Midrash

Introduction
Midrash Tanhuma
The Bereshith or Genesis Rabba
Exodus Rabba
Leviticus Rabba
Numbers Rabba
Deuteronomy Rabba
Ashmedai, The King Of Demons

Religious Poetry

Introduction
Poems of Ibn Gebirol
Poems of Judah Halevi
Later Poets

The Book Cusari

Introduction
The Book Cusari

The Philosophers

Introduction
The Commentaries of Ibn Ezra (Extracts)
Maimonides

The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela

The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela

Bibliography

Bibliography