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Sacred Texts
Judaism
The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East, Vol. IV
Medieval Hebrew
featuring
THE MIDRASH
[1917]
This is an an etext of an early 20th Century anthology of translations of
Medieval Hebrew religious texts.
This is of interest because of the (abridged) translations of some Midrash
texts, of which there are few public domain translations.
This also contains a fascinating Middle East travelogue
by a Jewish traveller in the 12th Century C.E., which also has an informal
census of the Jewish population in various areas.
This etext omits the section of the original book
on the Kabbalah, which simply repeats an
abridged copy of the material in The Kabbalah Unveiled, a complete etext of
which can be found here
Update! (1/24/2003)
I've finally tracked down and posted the source of the unattributed
Midrash extracts in this anthology:
see Tales and Maxims from the Midrash.
Title Page
Contents
Introduction
The Midrash
Introduction
Midrash Tanhuma
The Bereshith or Genesis Rabba
Exodus Rabba
Leviticus Rabba
Numbers Rabba
Deuteronomy Rabba
Ashmedai, The King Of Demons
Religious Poetry
Introduction
Poems of Ibn Gebirol
Poems of Judah Halevi
Later Poets
The Book Cusari
Introduction
The Book Cusari
The Philosophers
Introduction
The Commentaries of Ibn Ezra (Extracts)
Maimonides
The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela
The Travels of Benjamin of Tudela
Bibliography
Bibliography