How Long to Read Hebraic Literature: Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala

How Long Does it Take to Read Hebraic Literature: Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 10 minutes to read Hebraic Literature: Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala by Maurice Harris

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

What is the Talmud? There is more than one answer. Ostensibly it is the corpus juris of the Jews from about the first century before the Christian era to about the fourth after it. But we shall see as we proceed that the Talmud was much more than this. The very word "Law" in Hebrew-"Torah"-means more than its translation would imply. The Jew interpreted his whole religion in terms of law. It is his name in fact for the Bible's first five books-the Pentateuch. To explain what the Talmud is we must first explain the theory of its growth more remarkable perhaps than the work itself. What was that theory? The Divine Law was revealed to Moses, not only through the Commands that were found written in the Bible, but also through all the later rules and regulations of post-exilic days. These additional laws it was presumed were handed down orally from Moses to Joshua, thence to the Prophets, and later still transmitted to the Scribes, and eventually to the Rabbis. The reason why the Rabbis ascribed to Moses the laws that they later evolved, was due to their intense reverence for Scripture, and their modest {iv} sense of their own authority and qualification. "If the men of old were giants then we are pigmies," said they. They felt and believed that all duty for the guidance of man was found in the Bible either directly or inferentially. Their motto was then, "Search the Scriptures," and they did search them with literalness and a painstaking thoroughness never since repeated. Not a word, not a letter escaped them. Every redundancy of expression was freighted with meaning, every repetition was made to give birth to new truth. Some of the inferences were logical and natural, some artificial and far-fetched, but all ingenious. Sometimes the method was inductive and sometimes deductive. That is, occasionally the Jewish Sanhedrin promulgated a needed law, and then its authority sought in the Scripture, or the Scripture would be sought in the first instance to reveal new law.

How long is Hebraic Literature: Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala?

Hebraic Literature: Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala by Maurice Harris is 310 pages long, and a total of 77,500 words.

This makes it 105% the length of the average book. It also has 95% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Hebraic Literature: Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 3 minutes to read Hebraic Literature: Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala aloud.

What Reading Level is Hebraic Literature: Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala?

Hebraic Literature: Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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