Mitchell First

Jewish History in Conflict

A Study of the Major Discrepancy between Rabbinic and Conventional Chronology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the famous dispute about the length of time that Persia ruled over the land of ancient Israel.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 586g
• ISBN-13: 9781568219707
• ISBN-10: 1568219709
• Artikelnr.: 21380771

Autorenporträt

Mitchell First

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Diagram
Statement of Purpose
Part I: Introduction to the Discrepancy
The SO Chronology
The Conventional Chronology
The Discrepancy
Part II: The Earliest Jewish Responses to the Discrepancy
1. Saadiah Gaon
2. Seder Malkhei Romi
3. Josippon
4. Isaac Abravanel
5. Abraham Zacuto
Part III: Collection and Categorization of Jewish Responses
From the Time of Azariah de Rossi through Modern Times
Category A - SO Chronology is Correct: Conventional Chronology is Error
1. David Ganz
2. Judah Loew
3. Isaac Cantarini
4. Jacob Emden
5. Wolf Pohrille
6. Abraham Yeshayahu Karelitz
7. David Shmidel
8. Shlomo Rotenberg
9. Saul Lustig
10. Abraham Zuartz
11. Hayyim Fov Rabinovitz
12. David Hayyim Ibn Shalosh
13. Hersh Goldwurm
14. Isaac Simon Feder
15. Chaim Heifetz
16. Brad Aaronson
17. Sholom Klass
Category B - Conventional Chronology is Correct: SO Chronology is in Error
1. Azariah de Rossi
2. Samuel Joseph Fuenn
3. Nachman Krochmal
4. Solomon Judah Rapoport
5. Morris Raphall
6. Levi Herzfeld
7. Joseph Derenbourg
8. Moses Zuckermandel
9. Isidore Loeb
10. Baer Ratner
11. Alexander Marx
12. Joseph Jacobs
13. Ahron Marcus
14. Max Seligsohn
15. Eduard Mahler
16. Hayyim Bornstein
17. Philip Biberfeld
18. Ephraim Urbach
19. Harold Ginsberg
20. Solomon Zeitlin
21. Pinkas Weis
22. Abraham Akavya
23. Yehezkel Kaufmann
24. Simon Schwab
25. Issachar Jacobson
26. Hayyim Shvilly
27. Elias Bickerman
28. Aryeh Neuman
29. Judah Rosenthal
30. Benny Isaacson
31. Mordechai Breuer
32. Elihu Schatz
33. Ben Zion Wacholder
34. Moses Herr
35. Jay Braverman
36. Hayyim Mantel
37. Samuel Kedar
38. Joseph Tabori
39. Berel Wein
40. Henry Guggenheimer
41. Samuel Hakohen
Category C- Both the Conventional Chronology and the SO Chronology are
Correct
1. Azariah de Rossi
2. Anonymous
3. Ze'ev Jawitz
4. Samuel Krauss
5. Hayyim Hirscensohn
6. Henry Englander
7. Jonas Bondi
8. Jacob Gutkovski
9. Jacob Lauterbach
10. Hayyim Shvilly
11. Abraham Akavya
12. Charles Raddock
13. Adain Steinsaltz
14. Rahamin Sar-Shalom
Category D - Other Responses
DIResponses that Present Both the SO Chronology and the Conventional
Chronology without Taking a Position as to which is Correct
1. Aryeh Kaplan
2. Jacob Meidan
DIIResponses that Adopt the SO Chronology without Mentioning the
Conventional Chronology
1. Meir Loeb ben Jehiel Michael
2. Moses Weinstock
3. Abraham Kurman
4. Avigdor Miller
5. Meir Zlotowitz
6. Zechariah Fendel
7. Yosef Rabinowitz
8. Eliezer Shulman
9. Mattis Kantor
DIIIRepsonsed that Adopt the Conventional Chronology without Mentioning the
SO Chronology
1. Heymann Kottek
2. Simon Glazer
3. Kalman Kahana
4. Joseph Hertz
5. Isaac Halevy
6. Gilbert Klaperman
7. Shelomoh Daziger
8. Meir Herskovics
9. Abraham Bloch
10. Abraham Rosenfeld
11. Irving Greenberg
12. Shlomo Riskin
13. Emanuel Rackman
14. Louis Bernstein
15. Haskel Lookstein
DIV Miscellaneous Responses
1. Jehiel Heilprin
2. Moses Auerbach
Part IV: Evaluation of the Responses
Part V: Some Observations Regarding the Rabbinic Responses
Part VI: Summary and Conclusion
Appendix A: The SO Chronology
Appendix B: The Conventional Chronology
Appendix C: Additional Note on the Identification of Ahashverosh with
Xerxes
Appendix D: Early Jewish Authors who Adopt Chronologies of the Persian and
Second Temple Periods that Differ from the SO Chronology
Appendix E: Note on a Passage in Nahmandies
Appendix F: Note on the Responses of Non-Jewish Scholars
Addenda
Biographical Sketches
Bibliography
Index