The Jewish Quarterly Review (Volume 3) (Paperback)


Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: rewarded; therefore be virtuous," will hardly seem credible to those who have formed their judgments upon the basis of the current theological text-books. That very thing which is commonly believed to have debased the religion of the prophets to a formal and mechanical creed, without nfjaudon or spirituality, is in reality the very instrument which secured the permanent overmastery of idealism. That instrument is the Law. The truth of my proposition for the Rabbinical period will probably be shown by another writer; but the beginning of the process is already indicated within the Bible itself. In Psalm cxix. the conception of the fulfilment and the study of the Law for its own sake, and as its own reward, is already discernible. The community, in the midst of trouble, still finds its peculiar joy in the Law of its God (ver. 143). Its deepest prayer is, " Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight." Impossible as it now may be for many of us to look at the Law from the same ideal point of view or with the same enthusiasm as the Psalmist, it would be wrong not to recognise how great is the debt which Judaism, though indirectly, must always owe to it. And among other results of this Torah-worship, for such the love of the Law practically became, none is more important than that it should have secured for Judaism the triumph of the doctrine that virtue or religion, goodness or the love of God is, and always must be, its own reward. P.8.There is no doubt that the individualising of tho doctrine of Divine retribution was first seriously attempted in the exile by Ezekiel. Hut whether there are no indications of this doctrine in the pre-exilic literature is another question. Stade's view that there are none is, I think, exaggerated. The passages in Jeremia...

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: rewarded; therefore be virtuous," will hardly seem credible to those who have formed their judgments upon the basis of the current theological text-books. That very thing which is commonly believed to have debased the religion of the prophets to a formal and mechanical creed, without nfjaudon or spirituality, is in reality the very instrument which secured the permanent overmastery of idealism. That instrument is the Law. The truth of my proposition for the Rabbinical period will probably be shown by another writer; but the beginning of the process is already indicated within the Bible itself. In Psalm cxix. the conception of the fulfilment and the study of the Law for its own sake, and as its own reward, is already discernible. The community, in the midst of trouble, still finds its peculiar joy in the Law of its God (ver. 143). Its deepest prayer is, " Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight." Impossible as it now may be for many of us to look at the Law from the same ideal point of view or with the same enthusiasm as the Psalmist, it would be wrong not to recognise how great is the debt which Judaism, though indirectly, must always owe to it. And among other results of this Torah-worship, for such the love of the Law practically became, none is more important than that it should have secured for Judaism the triumph of the doctrine that virtue or religion, goodness or the love of God is, and always must be, its own reward. P.8.There is no doubt that the individualising of tho doctrine of Divine retribution was first seriously attempted in the exile by Ezekiel. Hut whether there are no indications of this doctrine in the pre-exilic literature is another question. Stade's view that there are none is, I think, exaggerated. The passages in Jeremia...

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February 2012

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