[⭘] Sulzberger: From Address at the Decennial Meeting of the J. P. S.
[⭘] Leeser: Preface, The Twenty-four Books of the Holy Scriptures.
[⭘] Adler: From a Sermon, ‘This Book of the Law’.
[⭘] Rashi: On Exodus vi. 9. Scripture must be interpreted according to its plain, natural sense—an epoch-making pronouncement in the history of Bible exegesis. Though he is not the author of this canon of interpretation, Rashi is the first seriously to attempt its application. ‘Rashi deserves the foremost place which the judgment of Jewish scholars generally accords him. He has two of the greatest and rarest gifts of the commentator, the instinct to discern precisely the point at which explanation is necessary, and the art of giving or indicating the needed help in the fewest words.’ (G. F. Moore.)
[⭘] Halevi: Cusari, ii, 56. Translated by H. Hirschfeld under the Arabic title Kitab Al-Khazari (Routledge), 1905.
[⭘] Geiger: Judaism and its History, I, 3.
[⭘] Jacobs: Jewish Contributions to Civilization, J. P. S.
[⭘] Shemtob: A remarkable anticipation by over three and a half centuries of the modern view of the rôle of the Prophets.
[⭘] Compare with the two other selections on the Prophets the following by Felix Adler:—
‘Either we must place nature uppermost, or man uppermost. If we choose the former, then man himself becomes a mere soulless tool in the hands of destiny, a part of a machine, the product of his circumstances. If we choose the latter, then all nature will catch a reflected light from the glory of the moral aims of man.