Outlines of Jewish History from B.C. 586 to C.E. 1885

Name: Outlines of Jewish History from B.C. 586 to C.E. 1885
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Intro
Contents
Note
Preface*
Dates of Chief Events and Chief People
Section I. 500 B.C. to 70 A.C. in the Shadow of the Sword
Chapter 1
The Jews in Babylon
1. Babylonian Exiles
2. Persian Conquest of Babylon
3. The Influences of the Exile
4. How Cyrus's Permission Was Received
5. The End of the Exile
Chapter 2
The Return to Palestine
1. The Rebuilding of the Temple
2. The Samaritans
3. The Feast of Purim
4. Ezra the Scribe
5. The Work of Ezra and Nehemiah
Chapter 3
Life in Palestine
1. Condition of the People
2. Literary Labours
3. Alexandrian Jews
4. The Septuagint
5. Under Egyptian Rule
6. Under Syrian Rule
7. Home Rule
Chapter 4
The Maccabean War of Independence
1. Antiochus Epiphanes
2. Antiochus's Tyranny
3. Resistance of Mattathias
4. Chasidim and Zaddikim
5. The Success of Judas Maccabeus
6. Institution of Hanucah
7. Treaty with Rome
Chapter 5
Palestine under Native Rule
1. Death of Judas Maccabeus
2. Jonathan the Maccabee
3. Simon, the First of the Priest-King Dynasty
4. The Sons of Simon
5. Reign of John Hyrcanus
6. His Last Years
Chapter 6
Judea during the Remainder of the Rule of the Asmoneans
1. Rival Factions. Pharisees and Sadducees
2. How They Got Their Names
3. Their Tenets and Position, Religions and Political
4. State Quarrel with the Pharisees
5. The Essenes
6. Reign of Alexander Jannæus (105-79 B.C.)
7. After the Death of Alexander Jannæus
Chapter 7
A New Dynasty
1. Antipater the Idumean
2. Rome Arbitrates
3. Antipater's Plans
4. The Sanhedrin
5. The Fall of the Asmonean House
Chapter 8
Reign of Herod
1. Antipater's 'Desire' Fulfilled
2. How Herod Strengthened His Position
3. Herod as Husband
4. Herod as Father
5. Herod as King
6. The End of Herod's Reign
7. Hillel: A Contrast
Chapter 9
Judea before the War
1. Herod's Will
2. Judea Sinks into a Roman Province
3. Jesus of Nazareth
4. Jews in Egypt and Syria
5. Birth of Christianity
6. Reign of Herod Agrippa
7. Caligula and the Jews
Chapter 10
The War with Rome
1. Agrippa II. Roman Governors
2. Vespasian Sent to Judea
3. Preparations for Defence
4. Josephus
Chapter 11
The End of the War
1. The Defence of the Provinces
2. Affairs in Jerusalem
3. The War Party and the Peace Party: Their Leaders
4. The Siege of Jerusalem
5. A Mediator Sent: Terms Proposed
6. The Destruction of the Temple
Section II. 70 to 1600. Darkness
Chapter 12
After the War
1. Titus Completes His Conquest
2. Masada
3. What Became of the Chief Actors
4. What Became of the Country and the People
5. Salvage
6. Jochanan Ben Saccai: The Schools
7. An Unforeseen Result of the War: Jewish Christians
Chapter 13
The Revolt under Hadrian
1. Conquered Jews in the West
2. Contemporary Jews in the East
3. Under Trajan
4. The Policy of Hadrian
5. The Jews in Revolt: Their Leader
6. Akiba: The Romance of His Youth
7. Akiba: The Romance of His Age
8. Hadrian's Resolve Accomplished
Chapter 14
The Revival of the Schools: Their Work
1. One of History's Miracles
2. The Schools: Their Work
3. The Masters of the Schools
4. The Moral Influence of the Schools
5. The Political Influence of the Schools
6. The Literary Influence of the Schools
Chapter 15
Christianity a State Religion
1. How the New Faith Spread among the Heathen
2. The First Christian Emperor
3. Constantine Legislates on the Subject: The Effects
4. Jews in the East under Persian Rule
5. Julian the Apostate
Chapter 16
The Break-up of the Roman Empire: Some of Its Consequences
1. Political Changes
2. Social Changes
3. Monks and Saints
4. How Jews Became Traders
5. The Slave Trade
6. Jews as Slave-Owners
7. Church Councils
8. Eastern Jews
9. War between the Persian and the Byzantine Empires
Chapter 17
The Rise of Mahomedanism (600-650)
1. 'The Koran or the Sword'
2. What Mahomed Learned from the Jews
3. Islam
4. Likenesses between Islam and Judaism
5. Differences between Islam and Judaism
Chapter 18
The Conquests of the Kaliphs: Effect, Religious and Social, on the Jews (600-800)
1. Progress of Mahomedanism
2. Gaonim
3. Spain in the Hands of the Mahomedans
4. The Karaite Movement
5. Mahomedan Causes for Karaism
6. The Leader of the Karaite Movement
7. What Became of the Sect
8. Good out of Evil
Chapter 19
Life under the Kaliphs (700-1000)
1. Jews in the East
2. Close of the Schools: Some Scholars
3. Jews in the West
4. The Policy of the Early Kaliphs
5. Some Effects of This Policy
Chapter 20
Jews in Spain (711-1150)
1. 'Like a Dream in the Night'
2. The Schools
3. The First Nagid of Spain
4. Another Nagid: Troubles in Granada
5. Revival of Catholicism in Spain
6. Effect on the Jews
7. The Almohade Dynasty of Kaliphs
Chapter 21
Jews in Spain (Continued) (1150-1492)
1. Under Catholic Kings in Spain
2. The Toledo Synagogue
3. The Downward Slope to Death
4. The Marannos, or New Christians
5. An Effort at Argument
6. The Inquisition
7. Objects and Functions of the Inquisition
8. Some Statistics of the Inquisition
9. Edict of Expulsion
10. Abarbanel's Intercession
Chapter 22
Jews in Central Europe in the Middle Ages
1. General Position of European Jews
2. Jews Become Money-Lenders
3. Charge of Usury
Chapter 23
Jews in Central Europe (Continued)
1. The Crusades
2. Glimpses of Better Things
3. Life in France till the Expulsion thence
4. Expelled from France
5. Treatment of Jews in the German States
Chapter 24
Jews in England (1066-1210)
1. The First Seventy Years
2. 'Saints' and Supplies
3. Accession of Richard
4. Treatment by Richard
5. Under John
Chapter 25
Jews in England (Continued) (1216-1290)
1. The Next Fifty Years
2. The Caorsini
3. The First Jewish M.P.s.
4. Another Device for raising Money
5. Under Edward I
6. Some Ironical Legislation
7. Dishonest Jews
8. Efforts at Conversion
9. Expulsion of Jews from England
Section III. 100-1500. Starlight
Chapter 26
Concerning Jewish Literature and Literary Men
1. Starlight
2. How the Stars Shone
3. Piyutim
4. A Specimen Planet
Chapter 27
Some Fixed Stars
1. Solomon ibn Gabirol (1021-1070)
2. 'Rashi' (1040-1105)
3. Abraham Ibn Ezra (1092-1167)
4. A Great Traveller
5. Jehudah Halevi (1085-1140)
Chapter 28
The Greatest of the Fixed Stars. Maimonides (1135-1204)
1. Early Days in Spain
2. Life in Exile
3. Becomes a Court Physician
4. Court and Other Employment
5. His Writings
6. His Character
Chapter 29
Darkness before the Dawn
1. The Stars Die out
2. Whither the Exiles Went
3. Life in Germany
4. A New Crusade
5. What Became of the Spanish and Portuguese Exiles
Chapter 30
The Darkness Visible
1. Deterioration of Character
2. Atmospheric Conditions
3. A Shooting Star: Sabbatai Zevi (1626-1676)
4. How the News Was Received
5. The Sultan Interferes
6. Sabbatai Resigns His Pretensions
7. Becomes a Convert to Mahomedanism
Section IV. 1591-1885. Dawn
Chapter 31
Dawn
1. Beginning of Better Days in Holland
2. The New Jerusalem
3. Sephardim and Ashkenazim
4. Spanish Jews in Holland
5. Their Acquired Intolerance
6. An Instance in Point: Uriel da Costa
Chapter 32
Manasseh Ben Israel
1. His Early Life
2. His Writings and His Friends
3. Manasseh Finds His Vocation
4. Negotiations Begun for the Return of the Jews to England
Chapter 33
The Return of the Jews to England
1. Manasseh Presents His Petition
2. A Christian Advocate
3. What People Said
4. How the Petition Was Received
5. End of Manasseh's Story
Chapter 34
Spinoza
1. Clouds Obscure the Dawn
2. The Amsterdam Jews at the Time of Spinoza
3. Spinoza's Student Days
4. Things Come to a Climax
5. How Spinoza Took His Sentence: His Mode of Life
6. Unto This Last
7. His Writings
8. Results
Chapter 35
In Northern and Central Europe, before the Dawn
1. A Long Night
2. Reuchlin and the Talmud
3. Another Jewish Influence, Elias Levitas
4. Some Jewish Results from the Invention of Printing
5. Influence of Printing on Kabbalistic Literature
Chapter 36
In Northern and Central Europe, before the Dawn (Continued)
1. A Group of Stars
2. Polish Jews
3. French Jews
4. Social Life in Germany
5. Moral and Material Effects upon the Jews
Chapter 37
Moses Mendelssohn
1. Early Days in Dessau
2. Goes to Berlin
3. How He Fares There
4. Seed-Time
5. Harvest
6. Nathan der Weise
7. Literary Successes
8. His Home Life
9. Last Years
Chapter 38
The Next Hundred Years (1780-1880)
1. Light and Shadows
2. Leopold Zunz
3. Progress of Events and of Legislation in Germany
4. Progress of Events and Legislation in France (1780-1880)
5. In Italy
6. In Spain and Portugal
7. In Austrian Dominions
8. In Other European States
9. In Russia and Poland
10. In Danubian Provinces
11. A Glance at the Rest of the Map
Chapter 39
Two Centuries and a Quarter in England (1660-1885)
1. First Fifty Years
2. Influx of Germans and Poles: How Received
3. Converts
4. Progress of Anglo-Jewish Legislation
5. Communal Progress
6. The Nineteenth Century
7. A Slander Revived and Slain
8. The Man of the Nineteenth Century
Conclusion
Index
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