The Talmud: What It Is
and What it Knows about Jesus and his Followers. By Rev. Bernhard Pick, Ph.D. Ideal Edition, Small Pica type, cloth, 60c.;
One of the most interesting and valuable of recent contributions to religious literature. It answers the great popular curiosity as to what the Talmud is, and gives to clergymen and theological students information of transcendant value, not heretofore accessible to many.
“That wonderful monument of human industry, human wisdom, and human folly.”—Dean Milman.
“In the history of the origin of Christianity, the Talmud has hitherto been far too much neglected.”—Ernest Renan.
“The Talmud may compete with the Constitutions of Loyola for the right to be considered the most irresistible organ ever forged for the subjugation of the human will.”—Edinburgh Review.
“The Talmud is the slow growth of several centuries. It is a chaos of Jewish learning, wisdom and folly, a continent of rubbish with hidden pearls of true maxims and poetic fables.”—Philip Schaff.
“But glimpses of profound metaphysics, stray parables of real beauty, and occasional sentiments of true spiritual breadth and elevation, are only the rare grains of wheat in mountains of chaff.”—Dr. Geikie.
“Anything more utterly unhistorical than the Talmud cannot be conceived. It is probable that no human writings ever confounded names, dates, and facts with more absolute indifference. Some excellent maxims may be quoted from the Talmud where they lie imbedded like pearls in a sea of obscurity and mud.”—Canon Farrar.
“A most curious monument, raised with astonishing labor, yet made up of puerilities. An immense heap of rubbish, at the bottom of which a few bright pearls of Eastern wisdom are to be found. The book composed by Israel without their God, in the time of their dispersion, their misery, and their degeneracy.”—Dr. Isaac Da Costa.