A Rabbinic Anthology

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Introduction and prefatory remarks
System of transcription, abbreviations, etc.
1. The nature and character of God and his relations with man
2. God's love for Israel
3. Man's nature and God's grace
4. Israel's love for God
5. The Law
6. Study, practice and goodness
7. The Commandments, the Sabbath, and the Law
8. Reward, merit and atonement
9. Divine mercy and divine judgment, idolatry, martyrdom
10. The importance of motive or intention. Kawwanah, and Lishmah. The love, the fear, and the praise of God
11. The doctrine of the evil inclination. Righteousness and sin
12. Man's repentance and God's compassion
13. Hope and faith. Miracles
14. On prayer
15. Justice, honesty, truth in oaths
16. On charity
17. On industry and independence. On poverty and riches
18. Hospitality, courtesy and good manners
19. Pity, forgiveness and love
20. On humility and pride
21. Various ethical conceptions
22. The family: (a) father and mother
23. The family: (b) the wife
24. The family: (c) children
25. Asceticism
26. Peace
27. This life in comparison with the next life
28. On sufferings
29. The gentiles
30. On proselytes
31. The life to come: resurrection and judgment
Excursus I. The use of the adjectives 'Jewish' and 'Christian' in England
Excursus II. Rabbinical and early Christian ethics R. H. Snape
Notes
Excursus III. The Rabbis, their 'generations' and their countries
List of rabbis
Excursus IV. The dating of Rabbinic material
Table of dates of extracts
Glossary
List of editions used
List of biblical passages
List of Greek and Latin passages
List of Rabbinic passages
General index.