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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ...to the Commentary on the book of Lamentations. The nature and mission of the human soul is the subject of the Introduction to Ecclesiastes. The origin and purpose of human suffering are discussed in the Introduction to Job; and the different conceptions of the divine inspiration by different prophets is described in the Introduction to Zechariah, and alluded to in the Introduction to Isaiah. The Commentary on the book of Psalms is preceded by an examination of the various views concerning the authors of the book; he maintains that it was composed in the time of King David, and for the greater part by David himself. In the Introduction to the Song of Solomon he explains the symbolic character of the book. profane sciences must use the books of scientific men." 1 This class consists of the Karaites; he opposes to them the instability of human opinion, which ought not to affect the performance of Divine commandments.-This class of Commentators is most probably not to he sought amongst the co-religionists of our author. He says D»D3E'Dm nninn O DrOlDN niTn " they believe that the laws and precepts of the Pentateuch can only be explained in an allegorical sense." In one of the recensions of the Introduction to the Pentateuch the Christians (D vlJJPI lit. "the uncircumcised ") had originally been named, but the passage was afterwards expunged. 3 Ibn Ezra attributes this method to the learned men in Christian countries (Edom and Yavan) who do not care for grammar, in contradistinction to the men of the Spanish school. He classifies the Midrash explanations as follows:--(1) Allegories and figures (11D 1? C1); (2) Popular exoteric explanation of difficult questions; (3) Such as can be derived from the text, though indirectly, by logical...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1130975851
- ISBN 13 9781130975857
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages98
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