| › Preface - The object of this volume is kindred to that of my previous book on The Temple, its Ministry and Services as they were at the Time of Jesus Christ. In ...read |
| › Chapter 1 - Palestine Eighteen Centuries Ago
Eighteen and a half centuries ago, and the land which now lies desolate--its bare, grey hills looking into ill-t ...read |
| › Chapter 2 - Jews and Gentiles in "The Land"
Coming down from Syria, it would have been difficult to fix the exact spot where, in the view of the Rabbis, "the ...read |
| › Chapter 3 - In Galilee at the time of our Lord
"If any one wishes to be rich, let him go north; if he wants to be wise, let him come south." Such was the say ...read |
| › Chapter 4 - Travelling in Palestine--Roads, Inns, Hospitality, Custom-House Officers, Taxation, Publicans
It was the very busiest road in Palestine, on which ...read |
| › Chapter 5 - In Judaea
If Galilee could boast of the beauty of its scenery and the fruitfulness of its soil; of being the mart of a busy life, and the highway ...read |
| › Chapter 6 - Jewish Homes
It may be safely asserted, that the grand distinction, which divided all mankind into Jews and Gentiles, was not only religious, but ...read |
| › Chapter 7 - The Upbringing of Jewish Children
The tenderness of the bond which united Jewish parents to their children appears even in the multiplicity and p ...read |
| › Chapter 8 - Subjects of Study. Home Education in Israel; Female Education. Elementary Schools, Schoolmasters, and School Arrangements.
If a faithful picture ...read |
| › Chapter 9 - Mothers, Daughters, and Wives in Israel
In order accurately to understand the position of woman in Israel, it is only necessary carefully to peru ...read |
| › Chapter 10 - In Death and After Death
A sadder picture could scarcely be drawn than that of the dying Rabbi Jochanan ben Saccai, that "light of Israel" immedi ...read |
| › Chapter 11 - Jewish Views on Trade, Tradesmen, and Trades' Guilds
We read in the Mishnah (Kidd. iv. 14) as follows: "Rabbi Meir said: Let a man always teach h ...read |
| › Chapter 12 - Commerce
The remarkable change which we have noticed in the views of Jewish authorities, from contempt to almost affectation of manual labour, co ...read |
| › Chapter 13 - Among the People, and with the Pharisees
It would have been difficult to proceed far either in Galilee or in Judaea without coming into contact w ...read |
| › Chapter 14 - The "Fraternity" of Pharisees
To realise the state of religious society at the time of our Lord, the fact that the Pharisees were a regular "orde ...read |
| › Chapter 15 - Relation of the Pharisees to the Sadducees and Essenes, and to the Gospel of Christ
On taking a retrospective view of Pharisaism, as we have desc ...read |
| › Chapter 16 - Synagogues: Their Origin, Structure and Outward Arrangements
It was a beautiful saying of Rabbi Jochanan (Jer. Ber. v. 1), that he who prays in h ...read |
| › Chapter 17 - The Worship of the Synagogue
One of the most difficult questions in Jewish history is that connected with the existence of a synagogue within the ...read |
| › Chapter 18 - Brief Outline of Ancient Jewish Theological Literature
The arrangements of the synagogue, as hitherto described, combined in a remarkable manner ...read |
| › Appendix 1 - Massecheth Middoth [70]
(Being the Mishnic Tractate Descriptive of the Measurements of the Temple)
Perek I.
1. The priests kept watch i ...read |
| › Appendix 2 - Extracts from the Babylon Talmud
Massecheth Berachoth, or Tractate on Benedictions [76]
Mishnah--From what time is the "Shema" said in the e ...read |
