Synopses & Reviews
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: So Schiirer, Geschichte des Judischen Volkes, II. p. 270, Hist. of the Jewish People, 2d. Div., I. p. 332. A more correct interpretation is given by Strack, art. Thalmud, P. R. E2., XVIII. p. 299, where he says: HD/H is properly the act of going, walking; tropically, i, a walk (life) in accordance with the Law (so odo Acts 9, 2. 19, 9. 23. 24, 22 = the Christian religion); 2, the Law in accordance with which the walk of life must be guided. This oral law, although it contained new regulations and modified existing laws, meant to be nothing else than an expansion of the written Law and a protection against its infraction. It was not to be regarded as containing any thing new; nay, it was even represented as having come down from Moses by the side of the written Law. So Aboth . i; cf. Pea ii. 6; Eduyoth viii. 7; Yada'im iv. 3. It is supposed to have been transmitted from Moses to Joshua, from the latter to the elders, from them to the prophets, and from these again to the men of the Great Synagogue. But this nnqudoau; Tmv nyw/?vcl- Qkiv (Matt. 15, 2. Mark 7, 3) arose only after Ezra, for the purpose of making a hedge about the law; and was the channel in which the perennial stream of legal regulations had to flow. I0- HISTORY OF THE COLLECTION OF THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOKS, CONTINUED. b. THE CANONIZATION OF THE PROPHETS. Although we have not at our command, for the history of the canonization of the second division of the Old Testament books, any such historical testimony as we have for those of the Law, it is still possible for us, from various facts and statements, to form a conception of the course of events which agrees with these accounts and is supported by facts. We shall not seek in vain for an answer to the questions which here present themselves. 1. W...
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