CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV

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INTRODUCTION--The Breadth and Persistency of Hebrew Learning	1
I.--THE MIDRASH, or Preserved Tradition	7
The Tanhuma Midrash (about A.D. 500)	12
Bereshith Rabba	42
Exodus Rabba	69
Leviticus Rabba	90
Numbers Rabba	105
Deuteronomy Rabba	121
Ashmedai, the King of Demons	133
II.--THE KABBALAH, or Secret Tradition (from unknown date to A.D. 1305) 1	145
The Book of Creation, or Sepher Yetzirah 1	164
The Book of Concealed Mystery, or Sepher Dtzenioutha 1	181
The Greater Holy Assembly 1	236
III.--RELIGIOUS POETRY	331
The Poems of Avicebron or Ibn Gabirol (died A.D. 1058)	334
The Poems of Judah Halevi (A.D. 1080-1150)	337
Later Poets	352
IV.--THE BOOK CUSARI, The Story of a Lost Race	359
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V.--THE GREAT HEBREW PHILOSOPHERS	367
Commentaries of Rabbi Ben Ezra (A.D. 1092-1167)	371
Advice of Maimonides (1135-1204)	375
VI.--THE TRAVELS OF BENJAMIN OF TUDELA (A.D. 1160-1173)	381
BIBLIOGRAPHY	429

ILLUSTRATIONS IN VOLUME IV

	FACING PAGE
The Tomb of Hiram	front
The Mosque of Abraham	pl01
Kabbalistic Diagram of the Soul	160
An Ancient Synagogue in Palestine	pl02

Footnotes

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v:1 Italicized entries are omitted from this etext. Refer to https://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/tku/index.htm for this material.