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CONTENTS

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XX Travellers’ Tales 200

Eldad the Danite.—Benjamin of Tudela.—Petachiah of Ratisbon.—Esthori Parchi.—Abraham Farissol.—David Reubeni and Molcho.—Antonio de Montesinos and Manasseh ben Israel.—Tobiah Cohen.—Wessely.

XXI Historians and Chroniclers 211

Order of the Tannaim and Amoraim.—Achimaaz.—Abraham Ibn Daud.—Josippon.—Historical Elegies, or Selichoth.—Memorial Books.—Abraham Zacuto.—Elijah Kapsali.—Usque.—Ibn Verga.—Joseph Cohen.—David Gans.—Gedaliah Ibn Yachya.—Azariah di Rossi.

XXII Isaac Abarbanel 225

Abarbanel’s Philosophy and Biblical Commentaries. Elias Levita.— Zeëna u-Reëna. Moses Alshech.—The Biur.

XXIII The Shulchan Aruch 232

Asheri's Arba Turim.—Chiddushim and Teshuboth.—Solomon ben Adereth.—Meir of Rothenburg.—Sheshet and Duran.—Moses and Judah Minz.—Jacob Weil, Israel Isserlein, Maharil.—David Abi Zimra.—Joseph Karo.—Jair Bacharach.—Chacham Zevi.—Jacob Emden.—Ezekiel Landau.

XXIV Amsterdam in the Seventeenth Century 243

Manasseh ben Israel.—Baruch Spinoza.—The Drama in Hebrew.—Moses Zacut, Joseph Felix Penso, Moses Chayim Luzzatto.

XXV Moses Mendelssohn 253

Mendelssohn's German Translation of the Bible.—Phædo.—Jerusalem.—Lessing’s Nathan the Wise.

Index 263