Author: Israel Abrahams

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-26

Total Pages: 808

ISBN-13: 9781527709263

Excerpt from The Jewish Quarterly Review, 1894, Vol. 7 On the 3oth of March, 1859, Perles received the degree of Doctor from the Breslau University, having passed the Examination summa cum laude, a. Rare distinction. He dedicated his Dissertation to his most-beloved Teachers preceptoribus dilectissimis), G. H. Bernstein and Zacharias Frankel. This Dissertation for the Doctorate was, as it seldom happens with such attempts, truly epoch-making. Within somewhat narrow limits it contained a fulness of most interesting matter and many new points of view. His subject was in the main nothing less than that the old Syriac Translation of the Bible, though it had been preserved by the Christian Church alone, was yet a product of Judaism, and, like the other ancient Jewish Trans lations of the Bible, reflected the J swish exegesis of the Bible as well as Jewish traditions. This view has, it is true, been combated, and with good reason partly narrowed down; but it advanced to a considerable degree the know ledge of the Peschito, and for the first time brought to light its historical setting. I may just refer in passing to the two theses which Perles appended to his doctor-dissertation, in order, as was the custom at the time, to defend his views in public - subj ects germane to the comparative researches of the author and which have not yet received adequate con sideration: Traditionum outs in re divine calent, similis apud Arabes atque spud Judmos est ratio and Cabbalistarum doctrine cum Ssufiorum arcte coheret. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.