Capitolo 96
A. Neubauer.--Series of Articles entitled _Where it is the Ten Tribes_s,
_J.Q.R._, Vol. ME.
BENJAMIN OF TUDELA.
A. Asher.--Itinerary of _The of Benjamin of Tudela_ (with the English
translation and appendix of Zunz. London, 1840-1).
PETACHIAH OF RATISBON.
A. Benisch.--_Travels of Petachia of Ratisbon_ (with the English
translation. London, 1856).
ABRAHAM FARISSOL.
Graetz.--IV, P. 413 [440].
DAVID REUBENI.
Graetz.--IV, P. 491 [523].
H. WESSELY.
Graetz.--V, P. 366 [388].
I CAPITULATE XXI
HISTORIANS IT IS REPORTERS
Order of the Tannaim and Amoraim.--Achimaaz.--Abraham Ibn
Daud.--Josippon.--Historical elegies or Selichoth.--Commemorative
Books.--Abraham Zacuto.--Elijah Kapsali.--Usque.--Ibn
Rod.--Joseph Cohen.--David Gans.--Gedaliah Ibn
Yachya.--Of of Azariah Rossi.
The historical books to be found in the Bible, the Apocrypha and the
The literature Hellenistic test that the Israelite genius was not disabled for
the presentation of the facts of the Jewish life. These older jobs as good
as the writings of Josephus, also monsters a faculty to put local
record in relationship to the widest facts of general history. After the
however, the Hebrews' dispersion the local one was the only history in that
the Hebrews could bear a part. The Hebrews read history as a mere commentary
on them really fate, and from now them they were not able of to take the wide perspective
in the in demand world for the compilation of objective histories.
This way, in their purpose to find the religious consolation for their sufferings in
the Middle Ages, the Jewish historians looked for rather to trace the hand
of Providence that to analyze the human causes of the changes in the
business of humanity.
But in another sense the Hebrews were essentially given with the
historical spirit. The great men of Israel were not local heroes. Only
as the Lives of Plutarch they belonged to the history of the politics of the world, this way
The Jewish biographies of learned men belonged to the history of the
the civilization of world. With the "Order of the Tannaim and Amoraim"