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.

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Produktdetails

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

Autorenporträt

While working as an attorney, Mitchell First studied Jewish history at Yeshiva University's Bernard Revel Graduate School, receiving his M.A. degree in Jewish History in 1995. He received a B.A. from Columbia College in 1979 and a law degree from Columbia Law School in 1982. He has written and lectured frequently on topics related to Jewish history and chronology, and has been a contributor to a variety of Jewish publications. He, and his wife, Sharon, reside in Teaneck, New Jersey, and are the proud parents of three children. Mitchell First has been an attorney in private practice in Manhattan since 1985.

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 DI Responses 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 DII Responses 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 DIII Repsonsed 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