Word: jewish
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Little is known about the Jewish temple except that it closely resembled the palaces and temples of Nineveh in many of its details. Hence the decorative work has been copied from reproductions of the latter buildings...
...Aramaic literature is almost wholly, either Jewish or Christian. The Jewish is represented by some parts of the books of Ezra and Daniel. The Christian form is commonly called Syriac. No pre-Christian literature exists. Such a literature probably arose with the pagan culture; but with the translation of the Bible into the Aramaic dialect of Odyessa, it disappeared...
Macmillan and Co. have in press a volume of "Studies in Judaism," by Mr. S. Shechter, Reader in Rabbinic in the University of Cambridge, which deal in a scholarly manner with many somewhat obscure topics in connection with the Jewish faith...
...note of the New Testament, which is European, in contrast with the Old Testament, which was wholly Asiatic. Between the book of Malachi, the last of the Old Testament series, and the birth of Christ, tour hundred years elapsed. These four centuries mark the transition period of the Jewish people from a simple, agricultural community to a powerful commercial people, whose land had been changed and improved under the influence of Roman civilization. If we are to understand the means by which the religion of Christ was spread abroad among the nations of the world, we must know the history...
What challenges our attention first in the New Testament is the new view of life and death introduced among the Jews; for there is no reference in old Jewish law to an after life. It is, indeed, only by a most severe stretching of the text that you can get a hint of immortality from the psalms of David. But in the New Testament the whole air is full of immortality, although the Sadducees and agnostics pretended not to believe in it. All this change and much more was brought about during those four lost centuries. Alexander the Great overthrew...