Montefiore & Loewe, eds. - A Rabbinic Anthology (1974)

A Rabbinic Anthology (Schocken, 1974). Selected and arranged with Comments and Introductions by C. G. Montefiore and H. Loewe, with a Prolegomenon by Raphael Loewe.

ISBN: 0805204423 | 978 pages | PDF


Originally published in 1938, A RABBINIC ANTHOLOGY is a comprehensive compendium of more than 1600 passages from the Talmudic and Midrashic literature dating from 100 to 500 CE. The thousands of stories, parables, and statements of the rabbis collected here bear on the nature of God, the Law, virtue, prayer, faith, sin, charity, the Messiah, and the Last Judgment. They also illuminates rabbinic attitudes toward the family, asceticism, hospitality, courtesy, and peace.

The editors provide extensive theological, historical, and lexical context, and the appendices on rabbinic texts, the glossary, and the detailed indexes contribute to make this an indispensable and nearly inexhaustible compilation of rabbinic source materials for the student and the home library.