The Jews in ancient, mediaeval and modern times . rable. Not that hewas a man before his age. In some of his writingshe dwells unduly upon Talmudic trifles and stupidi-ties, and cherishes a true Hebrew scorn towards thenotions of the Gentiles. But at other times he de-nounces astrology, draws up certain rules to be held HO IV THE RABBIS WROUGHT THE TALMUD. 151 as fundamental principles, which proclaim mono-theism and the immortality of the soul ; and in a bookcalled the Teacher of the Perplexed, tries to makeeasy for the common man the understanding ofScripture. In this work he so over-rides t
The Jews in ancient, mediaeval and modern times . rable. Not that hewas a man before his age. In some of his writingshe dwells unduly upon Talmudic trifles and stupidi-ties, and cherishes a true Hebrew scorn towards thenotions of the Gentiles. But at other times he de-nounces astrology, draws up certain rules to be held HO IV THE RABBIS WROUGHT THE TALMUD. 151 as fundamental principles, which proclaim mono-theism and the immortality of the soul ; and in a bookcalled the Teacher of the Perplexed, tries to makeeasy for the common man the understanding ofScripture. In this work he so over-rides the confu-sion of the Talmud, that he was long held by ortho-dox Jews as a heretic, or possibly a secret won, however, respect in life, and a pure andwidely extended fame. His house in Cairo wasbesieged by the sick, who found in him a healer kindand skilful. Some declared him to be the first mantruly great who had appeared among the Jews sincethe time of Moses, and it was written upon his gravethat he was the elect of the human CHAPTER X. THE HOLOCAUSTS IN SPAIN. We are now to examine the Hebrew story as it istold in the annals of one Christian race. The Jewshave claimed that their progenitors were in the Iberi-an peninsula even in the days of Carthaginian Romans and Visigoths in turn succeed, and atlength, through the Visigothic King Sisebut, theHebrews undergo their first sharp persecution. Theygladly exchange the Christian for the Moslem yoke,and, as we have seen, flourish with the Moors inbrotherly accord. With the ebb of the Saracenpower Navarre, Castile, Arragon, take shape on thestrand that is laid bare, until in the fifteenth centurythe Cross supplants the green banner of the propheteven in Granada, and the forces of the whole penin-sula, blended so that they can be wielded by a singlearm, become the mighty power of Spain. The Jewchanged masters, not to his advantage, but his mis-fortunes did not begin at once. The Spanish Israel-ites, the Se
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