A Selection From The Book Of Psalms: For School And Family Use (1888)
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Die Verhältnisse Der Sklaven Bei Den Alten Hebräern, Nach Biblischen Und Talmudischen Quellen Dargestellt: Ein Beitrag Zur Hebräisch-Judischen Alterthumskunde (Classic Reprint) (German Edition)
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Einen wichtigen Bestandtheil des Hauswesens bildeten bei allen Völkern des Alterthums die Sklaven. In der verschiedenen Stel lung, die diesem Element des Hauswesens durch Gesetz und Her kommen bei den einzelnen Völkern angewiesen war und in der gewöhnlichen Behandlung, die bei denselben den Sklaven: zu Theil wurde, Spricht sich der verschiedene sittliche Charakter jener Völker aus. Schon von diesem Gesichtspunkte aus scheint uns eine Untersuchung über das Sklavenverhältniss bei den Helnäern von Wichtigkeit, da es in so wesentlichen Punkten sich von diesem Ver hältniss bei andern Völkern unterschied und uns denselben höheren sittlichen Geist erkennen lässt, der jedem Unbefangenen aus andern Verhältnissen und Institutionen dieses Volkes entgegen leuchtet. Wir besitzen zwar aus der neueren Zeit bereits manigfache Dar stellungen des eben genannten Verhältnisses von sehr bedeuten den Gelehrten, allein die meisten behandeln den Gegenstand eben nur gelegentlich in den Commentaren zur h. Schrift oder im Zusam menhang mitanderu hebräischen Alterthiimern und widmen ihm daher nicht die Ausführlichkeit, welche in mehrfacher Beziehung wohl wünschenswnth sein dürfte. Überdies aber scheinen die talmudischen Quellen zu wenig in der bisherigen Behandlung des in Rede stehenden Gegenstandes benutzt worden zu sein. Und doch verdienen diese Quellen bei Darstellungen auf dem Gebiete der hebräisch jüdischen Archäologie unleugbar viel Beachtung, pda dieselben uns häufig erst das deutliche farbige Bild dessen geben was in den biblischen Urkunden nur in leisen Umrissen zu sehen ist. Bei dem vorliegenden Gegenstande ist insonders zu berücksichtigen dass zur Zeit der Talmüdlehrer das Sklaven venhältniss, jedenfalls in der Gestalhmg und Ausbildung, die es seit der Rückkehr aus dem babylonischen Exile genommen zum Theil noch bestanden. Indem wir daher mit gebührender Würdi gung der über diesen Gegenstand bereits vorhandenen Arbeiten eine möglichst ausführliche Darstellung des Sklavenverhütnisses bei den Hebräem und Juden in dieser Monographie versuchen, haben wir sorgfältig alle Gesetzbestimmungen und Andeutungen sowohl in der heiligen Schrift als in den verschiedenen talmudischen Schriften aufgesucht und geprüft und sie insoweit sie uns über den einen oder andern Punkt Licht zu geben geeignet schienen, mit Angabe der Quelle benutzt.
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The Talmud, that monumental composition of Jewish law and lore filling twelve folio volumes, is the evolutionary product of compilation that spans about eight centuries. Replete with observations, ethical maxims, beautiful legends, and exegetical explanations, this remarkable work has exerted a powerful influence on Jewish thought through the ages. 'Introduction to the Talmud,' considered one of the most comprehensive work of its kind in English, is designed to facilitate the study of an exceedingly intricate subject. Here, in scholarly yet readable form, is an historical and literary introduction to the Talmud and an examination of its component parts, legal hermeneutics, terminology and methodology. This edition is further enhanced by biographical material on commentators, chronological tables, glossaries and indices which will prove helpful even to those already familiar with the 'sea of the Talmud.'
Moses Mielziner was an American rabbi, teacher, and author.
Background
Moses Mielziner was born on August 12, 1828, in Schubin, province of Posen, Germany. His father, Benjamin Leib Mielziner, rabbi of Schubin, belonged to a long line of Jewish savants, and his mother, Rose Rachel Caro, was descended from the celebrated Jewish ritualistic authority, Joseph Caro (1488 - 1575).
Education
Moses Mielziner naturally obtained his elementary Jewish education from his father, to which additions were made by Moses' brother at Tremessen and by the Yeshivah at Exin. His subsequent secular and Talmudic knowledge was acquired in Berlin, whither he went in 1844. In the fall of 1848, he matriculated at the University of Berlin, where he studied philosophy and philology.
He wrote, in both Latin and German, a dissertation, Die Verhältnisse der Sklaven bei den Alten Hebräern, nach Biblischen und Talmudischen Quellen Dargestellt (1859), for which he received the degree of Ph. D. at the University of Giessen (1859). This work, published in English under the title Slavery among the Ancient Hebrews (1861), proved of special interest in America during the Civil War.
Career
After having served as religious head at Waren, Mecklenburg (1852 - 54), with David Einhorn as chief rabbi, Mielziner, in 1854, went to Copenhagen, Denmark. In 1855 he became principal of a school. All of Mielziner's writings had a timely message. They were prompted by prevailing needs; but they were marked also by literary grace, clarity, and, above all, reliability. His first position was the pulpit of Anshe Chesed, then the oldest German Jewish congregation in New York. On account of internal congregational wrangles, he gave up his office and the congregation merged with Beth-El, of which his friend, David Einhorn, was a rabbi. For a few years, Mielziner conducted a private school for boys. In 1879, he was called by Isaac M. Wise, founder and president of the Hebrew Union College, to Cincinnati, where, in the first American rabbinical seminary, he held the chair of the Talmud until the time of his death. In 1901, he was appointed consulting editor of The Jewish Encyclopedia, and himself contributed articles to the first volume of this work. In 1882, after the death of its rabbi, Dr. Max Lilienthal, the B'nai Israel Congregation of Cincinnati elected Mielziner temporary rabbi until a regular successor could be appointed. He often occupied the pulpit of Isaac M. Wise in Temple B'nai Jeshurun, Cincinnati. From 1888 to 1889 he was president of the Hebrew Sabbath School Union. When Dr. Wise died, Mielziner was elected, April 5, 1900, president of the Hebrew Union College, and served as such until his death. He died at Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Politics
By heredity and environment, Mielziner had been made a conservative-liberal. Owing to the dissensions between orthodoxy and liberalism in his Copenhagen constituency, he came to the United States in 1865.
Connections
At Copenhagen, on May 19, 1861, Mielziner married Rosette Levald, by whom he had seven children.