History of the Jews

Submitted by saltysteve on Sat, 05/30/2009 - 07:48

Graetz completed the final revision of his work about 1870. He was irascible, opinionated, but loaded with data. His original work in German ran to eleven volumes. For the English edition, this was reduced to six volumes. This file is a further abridgment of the last four volumes, covering the period from Maimonides to the mid-19th century.

Extract: From his father, Maimuni learned the Bible, the Talmud, the Jewish branches of learning, mathematics and astronomy; he attended lectures on science and medicine by Mahometan professors, and was introduced into the temple of philosophy. Through reading and contacts, he obtained a fund of solid information, and his clear intellect regulated his knowledge, however various and diverse it was. His was a thoroughly logical and systematic mind, which had the power of grouping and arranging the greatest and the smallest things, and he was a sworn enemy of disorder and chaotic confusion. In this respect he may justly be called the Jewish Aristotle. Perhaps no one before Maimuni had so thoroughly absorbed and assimilated Aristotle’s philosophical system. He made it a part of his own intellectual possession.

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