X PREFACE Christianity. As a Christian who has for several years found his chief and absorbing intellectual interest in the study of the Rabbinical literature-so far as other and more pressing claims on his time would allow-I offer this book as a contribution to Christian scholarship, and I trust that the great Jewish scholars, whose works have been of so much help to me, will not frown on my small incursion into their domain. I have only to add an expression of cordial thanks to the Rev. S. Alfred Steinthal for his kindness in reading the proofs. STAND, MANCHESTER, October 1903. |