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Babylonian Talmud, Book 10: History of the Talmud, tr. by Michael L. Rodkinson, [1918], at sacred-texts.com

CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.

	PAGE
PREFACE	v
INTRODUCTION	1
CHAPTER I.
THE ORIGIN OF THE NAME "TALMUD." THE SAMARITANS. ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES. THE SADDUCEES	5
CHAPTER II.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TALMUD DURING THE LAST CENTURY OF THE SECOND TEMPLE'S EXISTENCE (i.e. THE FIRST A.C.) SHEMAIA. ABTALIAN. HILLEL. SHAMMAI. THE PRINCES (NASIS) OF ISRAEL. R. JOHANAN B. ZAKKAL. SANHEDRIN OF JAMNIA. THE JEWISH CHRISTIANS	7
CHAPTER III.
HE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE. THE FALL OF BETHEL. THE MASSACRE OF THE SAGES OF THE TALMUD, TILL THE WRITING OF THE MISHNA IN THE BEGINNING OF THE THIRD CENTURY	10
CHAPTER IV.
THE THIRD CENTURY. THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE MISHNAS. THE TALMUDIC COLLEGES OF PALESTINE AND BABYLONIA.	13
CHAPTER V.
THE TALMUD OF JERUSALEM, THE TALMUD OF BABYLONIA, THE CHARACTER OF THEIR HALAKHA AND HAGADA, THE DATES OF THEIR COMPLETION AND THEIR SYSTEMATIZATION	17
CHAPTER VI.
THE PERSECUTIONS OF THE TALMUD IN THE PERSIAN AND BYZANTINE EMPIRES IN THE SIXTH CENTURY AFTER THE CLOSE OF THE TALMUD	23
p. viii
CHAPTER VII.	PAGE
THE EIGHTH CENTURY. THE DOMINION OF THE GAONIM. THE OPPOSITION OF THE KARAITES. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A SECT OF THAT NAME	25
CHAPTER VIII.
ISLAM AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE TALMUD	33
CHAPTER IX.
THE VICTORY OF KARAISM OVER THE SPIRITUAL DOMINION OF THE TALMUD AND THE MIND OF THE JEWISH NATION. THE LAST GAONIM AT SURA AND PUMBEDITHA. THE CENTRE OF TALMUDIC STUDY TRANSFERRED FROM MESOPOTAMIA TO SPAIN, THE SCHOLARS OF KAIRUBAN. THE PERIOD OF THE GREATEST DIFFUSION OF TALMUDIC STUDY	36
CHAPTER X.
THE SPANISH WRITERS. A BRIEF SURVEY OF THEIR WRITINGS RELATING TO THE TALMUD	43
CHAPTER XI.
THE SCHOLARS OF GERMANY AND OF NORTHERN FRANCE, AND WHAT THEY CONTRIBUTED TO THE STUDIES OF THE TALMUD	50
CHAPTER XII.
THE DOCTORS OF FRANCE. AUTHORS OF THE TOSPHOTH	57
CHAPTER XIII.
RELIGIOUS DISPUTES OF ALL PERIODS	61
CHAPTER XIV.
REUCHLIN, PFEFFERKORN, AND THE TALMUD IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES	76
CHAPTER XV.
POLEMICS WITH MUSSULMANS AND THE DISPUTES WITH THE FRANKISTS	99
p. ix
CHAPTER XVI.	PAGE
THE PERSECUTIONS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, THE HEAD OF WHOM WAS JOHANN ANDREAS EISENMENGER	104
CHAPTER XVII.
THE POLEMICS AND THE ATTACKS UPON THE TALMUD IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY	106
CHAPTER XVIII.
THE AFFAIR OF RHOLING-BLOCK	109
CHAPTER XIX.
EXILARCHS; THE TALMUD AT THE STAKE AND ITS DEVELOPMENT AT THE PRESENT TIME	115
APPENDIX A.
NOS. 1 TO 18 CONTAINS EIGHTEEN EXPLANATORY NOTES TO THE TEXT	121
NO. 19 CONTAINS AN EXTRACT OF THE CONCLUSION OF OUR REVIEW TO DR. KOPF'S BOOK, MENTIONED IN TEXT	125
NO. 20 CONTAINS A TRANSLATION OF A FEW PAGES OF OUR BOOK, "DER SCHULCHAN ARUCH UND SEINE BEZIEHUNGEN ZU DEN JUDEN UND NICHTJUDEN," CONCERNING THE TRIAL BEFORE THE "LANDESGERICHTE," AT MÜNSTER, DEC. 10, 1883, ABOUT THE ACCUSATION OF THE TALMUD AND SCHULCHAN ARUCH	126
NO. 21 LETTER OF THE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY	136
NO. 22 JEWISH ENCYCLOPÆDIA	136
APPENDIX B.
CRITICISM TO CHAPTER VII. (KARAITES). THE BELIEFS OF SADDUCEES, KARAITES, AND OF THE REFORMED JEWS, AND ALSO ABOUT RESURRECTION	138

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