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Subject(s)

• Judaism [Browse]
• Jewish ethics [Browse]
• Rabbinical literature—Translations into English [Browse]

Notes

• Published in 1962 under title: A treasury of Judaism.
• Includes selections from the Old Testament.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Torah: Genesis; Exodus; Leviticus; Numbers; Deuteronomy
• Former prophets: Joshua; Judges; Samuel; Kings
• Major prophets: Isaiah; Jeremiah; Ezekiel
• Minor prophets: Hosea; Joel; Amos; Obadiah; Jonah; Micah; Nahum; Habakkuk; Zephaniah; Haggai; Zechariah; Malachi
• Sacred writings: Psalms; Proverbs; Job; Song of Songs; Ruth; Lamentations; Ecclesiastes; Esther; Daniel; Ezra; Nehemiah; Chronicles
• Apochrypha: Tobit; Ben Sira; The twelve testaments; Second Maccabees; The Hasmonean scroll
• Josephus: The Essenes
• Mishnah: Ethics of the fathers; Man's importance; Self-respect
• Talmud: Compassion; Contentment; Personal conduct; Hillel's gentleness; Three proselytes; Flexible like a reed; From shepherd to scholar; Kindness rewarded; Escaping injury; Investment in charity; All for the best; Defeated by three; Martyrdom and eternal life; Faithfulness; Torah and humility; Education and learning; Teaching methods; Kamtza and Bar Kamtza; Proverbial sayings --^
• Midrash: Alphabet and creation; Adam and Eve; Abraham; Written and oral; Birth and death; The revelation; Gentle mercy; Moral justice; A better sense of justice; Three proofs of wisdom; Measure for measure; More than enough; Israel's tragedy and hope; Midrashic maxims
• Zohar: Human relations; Allegory; God of truth; The nutshell; Sayings; Prayerbook
• Siddur: Adon Olam; Yigdal; Meditation; Great love; Alenu; Nishmath; High Holyday prayers; Avinu Malkenu; Un'thanneh Tokef; Confession on Yom Kippur; Kaddish
• Saadyah Gaon: Beliefs and opinions
• Eliezer the Great: Orhoth Hayyim
• Solomon ibn Gabirol: Select pearls; Moral qualities
• Ba'hya ibn Pakuda: Duties of the heart
• Yehudah Halevi: Kuzari
• Judah ibn Tibbon: Ethical will
• Moses Maimonides: Mishnah commentary; Letter to Yemen; Mishneh Torah; Guide for the perplexed; Gates of instruction
• Abraham Maimonides: The high ways to perfection
• Moses Nahmanides: A letter of instruction
• Yehudah Hehasid: Sefer Hasidim --^
• Elazar Rokeah: Sefer Horokeah
• Rabbi Asher-Rosh: Right conduct
• Rashi: Bible commentary
• Meir of Rothenburg: Responsa
• Israsel al-Nakawa: Menorath Hamaor
• Judah ibn Kalaaz: Book of instruction
• Joseph Karo: Shulhan Arukh
• Solomon Ganzfried: Kitzur Shulhan Arukh
• Leon of Modena: On gambling
• Glueckel of Hamelin: Memoirs
• Moses Hayyim Luzzatto: Mesillath Yesharim
• Jacob Emden: Eretz Yisrael
• Elijah Wilna-Gaon: A letter of advice
• Jacob Krantz: Sefer Hamiddoth
• Israel Baal Shem Tov: Hasidism
• Nahman Bratzlaver: Reflections
• Yiddish: Maxims
• Samson Raphael Hirsch: Nineteen letters; Precepts of Jewish living
• Israel Salanter: The moralist movement
• Abraham Isaac Kook: Jewish thought
• Hermann Cohen: Festive joy and peace
• Solomon Schechter: Saints and saintliness
• Ahad Haam: At the parting of the ways
• Hayyim Nahman Bialik: The Hebrew book; Halakhah and Aggadah; Poems
• Simon Dubnow: The philosophy of Jewish history --^
• Louis Ginzberg: The rabbinical student
• Rabbi Israel Meir Ha- Kohen: Hafetz Hayyim
• Michael Friedlander: The Jewish religion
• Theodor Herzl: The Jewish state
• Louis Lipsky: There is singing on Mount Scopus
• Martin Buber: Israel and the world
• Salis Daiches: Judaism and Western civilization
• Stephen S. Wise: As I see it
• Jehiel J. Weinberg: The Musar movement and Lithuanian Jewry
• Abraham Joshual Heschel: A passion for truth
• Samuel Hugo Bergman: In His image
• Mordecai M.Kaplan: Basic values in Jewish religion
• Leo Jung: Human relations in Jewish law
• Isidore Epstein: The faith of Judaism
• Eliezer Berkovits: Crisis and faith
• Norman Lamm: Faith and doubt.

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Other title(s)

Bible. Old Testament. English. Selections. 1977.

ISBN

• 0884824101
• 9780884824107

LCCN

^^^77009104^

OCLC

3071786

RCP

H - S

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