Curiosities of Superstition, and Sketches - W. H. Davenport Adams

late as 500 B.C. Some consider him to have been the founder of a dynasty; others invest him with a ...

To attach blame elsewhere, Do we at will invent Stern powers who make their care To embitter human life, ...

which fills, soothes, blesses, inspires the aching, restless, craving human heart. When it can no longer s ...

CHAPTER III. JEWISH SUPERSTITIONS. THE TALMUD. THE Talmud, (from the Hebrew lamad, to learn,) is the name given ...

large the golden germs of thought previously hidden in the schools of the learned, yet numerous ...

As regards the sentiments of the Rabbins towards Christianity: in the reign of Domitian, (that is, about A.D. ...

the case of the Talmud dates are of real and living importance, though we own that it is difficult to fix ...

corrupted through the interpolation of gross traditions and the critical judgments of different schools, when ...

occasionally a deep significance underlies them, converting them into allegories and fables and parables ...

and barbarous terms and grammatical solecisms to a much greater extent than the “Jerusalem Talmud.” Mr. Bl ...

“In its origin it was the result of an almost necessary development. Starting with the axiom that the law of ...

“Section III. Women: of betrothal, marriage, divorce, &c.; also of vows. “Section IV. Damages: in ...

these follies form only a small item in the vast mass of allegories, parables, and the like, that ...

functions correspond almost exactly to those of their Persian prototypes. There are also hosts of ministering ...

a fiery furnace than bring any one to public shame. Hospitality is the most important part of divine worsh ...

ear. He who forsakes the love of his youth, GOD’S altar weeps for him. He who sees his wife die befo ...

tree? A shadow that prevails for a while? No, it is the shadow of a bird in his flight,—away speeds ...

CHAPTER IV. BRAHMANISM. THE BRAHMANS. IN the “Book of Sir Marco Polo” occurs a quaint description of the Abraiam ...

morning, of his shadow in the sun, which ought, he says, on that day to be of such and such a lengt ...

this powder on the middle of his forehead. They do not eat from bowls or trenchers, but place their food ...