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xxviii, 290 pages 23 cm Errata slip inserted Includes bibliographical references The Oral Law and its relation to the Written Law -- Traditional laws without any exegetical basis in the Torah -- The categories of Oral Law -- Authority for rulings based on logical inferences -- Enactments deduced from post-Mosaic books -- Takkanoth (enactments) and Gezeroth (decrees) -- Gezeroth in chronological order -- Enactments promulgated by post-biblical authorities -- Enactments handed down from anonymous authorities -- The Takkanoth in chronological order -- Enactments promulgated by the Nesiyyim (princes) and the Sanhedrin (Supreme Court) -- Rabbinic enactments unanimously adopted -- Enactments the binding force of which was later relaxed -- A summary of the various categories of the Oral Law -- Rulings established by the usage of the people -- Miscellaneous rabbinical ordinances -- The Aggadah -- a general outline of its main aspects -- Aggadoth received by tradition -- The thirty-two Middoth (rules) employed in the Aggadah -- The praise of the righteous and the condemnation of the wicked in Aggadah -- The quoting of various persons under one and the same name -- The method of expounding t

Author

from the Hebrew, edited and critically annotated by Jacob Shachter

Publisher

London, East and West Library

Published

1952

Language

EN

Subjects

Religion, Judaism