This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... The writer of this pasquinade reproaches the Prussian Ministry in unmeasured terms for having sanctioned Geiger's election. He is convinced that if the just (?) complaints of the orthodox Jews had reached the throne of the king, and if the dissenting opinions of Geiger had been known to the highest authorities, it would have been needless for him to write on the subject. The fact of the matter is that the enemies of Geiger had left no stone unturned in order to oust him. At first they appealed to the government of the province of Upper Silesia, then to the minister of the interior, then to the king, then they attempted to effect Geiger's removal from office. the point of view of Modern Judaism" (Berlin, Issleib, 1880). But some instances may find a place here: "Who knows, who ascends the heaven, returns and tells us"(Talm. Makkoth, 23). "A time will come when all religious laws and ceremonies will lose their validity' (Niddah, 61). "God never came down from heaven to earth, Moses and Elijah never ascended the heaven" (Succah, 5)r "Israel has no longer to expect a Messiah, for the prophecies concerning the Messiah were fulfilled through Hezekiah" (Sanh, 99). Many Christians and a great many orthodox Jews are of the opinion that the so-called Biblical criticism is the work of modern theologians, a product of the Nineteenth century. Nothing of the kind. If they will please go back fifteen centuries, they surely will be nearer the cradle of this so-called "new science." In the middle of the third century Simon ben Lakish, the great Talmud teacher, decided that Job never existed but was a poetical creation, aud furthermore, that the names of the angels were borrowed from a foreign people (Babylonians, Persians), by the Jews during the exile....