The Talmud (31 page)

Gaon
(title)
57
see also
Geonim

Geiger, Abraham
187
–
91

gemara
5
,
51

Genizah
at Cairo
70
,
197
–
8

geography of Babylon
35
–
9

Geonim

Ahai
66
–
7

Amram
67
–
8

Hai ben Sherira
87

Joseph ben Jacob
77
–
8

Nissim
86
–
7

Sherira
49

Shmuel ben Hofni
60

Germany under the Nazis
201
–
4
see also
Rhineland

Gershom ben Yehuda
100
–
2

Gershom Soncino
134
,
139
–
40

Gesenius, Wilhelm
193

ghèto
142

Gibson, Margaret Dunlop
197
–
8

Giorgi, Francesco
148
–
9

Giustiniani, Marco Antonio
144

globalization
14
–
15
,
212

God, name of
164
–
5

golem
106

good deeds
24
–
5
,
46

grammars
137
–
138
see also
dictionaries

Granada
132

Great Matter
147
–
9

Greek wisdom
119
–
20
,
156
–
60

Gregory IX, Pope
113

Grotius, Hugo
152
–
3
,
154

Guadalajara
132
–
3

guerrilla warfare
17
,
22

Guide for the Perplexed
(Maimonides)
94
,
119
–
20

Hai ben Sherira (Hai Gaon)
63
,
87
,
100

hair-splitting
105
–
6

halacha
58

Halachot Gedolot
66

Halachot Pesukot
66

Hananel ben Hushiel
86
–
7

Hanoch ben Moses
91

Harun al-Rashid, Caliph
56
–
7
,
66

Hasidism
173
–
6
,
194

Haskalah
182
–
3
,
194
see also
Enlightenment; Reformed Judaism

Hayyim of Brisk
198

Hayyim of Volozhim
179
–
80

Hebraists, Christian
135
–
40
,
205

The Hebrew King’s Law
(Shickard)
151

Hebrew Republic
149
–
53

Hebrew, study of
135
–
40
,
205

Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor
100

Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor
98

Henry VIII, King of England
147
–
9
,
206
–
7

hereditary titles
22
,
30
,
61
–
2

Herford, R. Travers
205

higher criticism
191
–
4

Hillel
Nasi
22
,
32
,
201

Hirsch, Samson Raphael
187
–
90

Hisdai ibn Shaprut
88
–
91

The Historie of Tithes
(Selden)
154

history
3
–
5
,
112

Holocaust
201
–
4

House of Wisdom
56
–
7

Hugh of St Victor
105

humanism
139
–
40

Hushiel ben Elchanan
84
,
86

incantations
38

inconclusivity
65
,
213
see also
controversy

inconsistency
105
–
6

Index Expurgatorius
146

Index Librorum Prohibitorum
145

inerrancy
9
–
11
,
105
–
6

Innocent III, Pope
113

Innocent IV, Pope
118

Inquisition

role in censorship
146

Spanish
131
–
2

inspiration, Divine
9
–
11
,
105
–
6

interconnectivity
14
–
15
,
212

internet
212

interpretative tradition
11
–
12
,
106
–
7

interreligious dialogue/debate

Barcelona
121
–
4

Frankists
172

James I of Aragon
121
–
2

King Bulan of Khazaria
90

Louis IX of France
113
–
16

Tortosa
131

Isaac Al-Fasi
93

Islam
53
–
5

Baghdad
55
–
8

cross-fertilization with Talmudic ideas
69

ideas shared with the Talmud
58
–
61

temporal power and scholarly authority
61
–
3

see also
Ottoman Empire

isolation of communities
55
,
182
,
189

Israel

Jerusalem
15
,
75
–
7

reestablishment of European academic establishments
203
–
4

see also
Jerusalem; Zionism

Israel Ba’al Shem Tov
173
–
6

Isra’iliyyat
61

Jacobs, Louis
51
,
135

James I, King of Aragon
121
–
2

Jastrow, Marcus
193

Jehoachin, King of Judah
31
–
2

Jerusalem
15
,
64
,
68
,
74
,
75
–
7

Jerusalem Talmud
11
,
48

Bomberg’s edition
143

relative influence
65
,
71
,
74

Jesuits
145

Jacob ibn Shahin
86
,
88

Jokisch, Benjamin
66

Joseph, King of Khazaria
89

Joseph ben Jacob
77
–
8

Joseph ibn Abitur
91

Joshua Solomon of Soncino
133
–
4

Jubilee
10

Judah Loew
106
,
158
–
9

judiciary, rabbinical
45
see also
jurisprudence; law

Julius III, Pope
144

jurisprudence
1
,
44

inheritance and land ownership
36

similarities with Islam
58
–
61

systematic codification of laws
65
–
6

see also
codification

Justinian law code
65
–
6

K’ab al-Ahbar
61

kabbalah
126
–
8
,
138
,
177

Jacob Frank
171
–
3

Johannes Reuchlin
137
–
40

Kahana, Rav
42
–
3

Kairouan
70
–
1
,
80
–
2
,
97

Eldad the Danite
82
–
3

special prominence of
84
–
7

kallah
43

Karaites
71
–
5
,
136
,
153

Kepler, Johannes
158

Khazars
89
–
90

kidnapping
125
–
6
,
178

Kisas al-Anbiya
(Tales of the Prophets)
61

Lampronti, Isaac
159
–
60

land ownership
36
,
153

language

dictionaries
193
,
209

grammars
137
–
8

Hebrew language services
185
–
6

translation
78

Latin Bible
136
–
7

law
1

codification of
65
–
6

copyright
142

cross-fertilization between Sharia and Talmudic
69

land ownership
36
,
153

similarities with Islam
58
–
61

see
also
codification; jurisprudence; Oral Law

layering (textual structure)
50
–
2

legends

of the four captives
84
–
5

the
golem
106

of the Jewish Pope
98
–
9

Leipziger Allgemeine Zeitung
190
–
1

Lemlein, Asher
127
–
8

Leo X, Pope
140

Letter of Pirkoi ben Baboi
70
–
1

letters
32
–
3
,
70
–
1
,
101

Lewis, Agnes Smith
197
–
8

libel, blood
112
,
172
–
3
,
190
–
1

Libson, Gideon
60

lice, reproduction of
159
–
60

life, sanctity of
59
,
72

Light of the Exile
100
–
2

literature, Islamic
60
–
1

lives of the rabbis
47
–
8

Louis IX of France
113
–
18

Lunzer, Jack
206
–
7

Lutheranism
136
–
7

Maes, Andreas
145

magic
38

maggid
134

Maimonides
94
–
7
,
119
–
20
,
135
,
153

Mainz
97
–
103
,
138

marriage
10
see also
divorce; polygamy; widows

Martini, Raymondi
124
–
6

martyrdom
26
,
56
,
167

Marx, Karl
195

mathematics
38

Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
138

Mazdak uprising
49

medicine
38
,
138

Medina
54

Meir ben Baruch
117
,
125
–
6

Menasseh ben Israel
153
–
4

Mendelssohn, Moses
181
–
3
,
184
,
187

Mendoza family
133

merchants
59
–
60
,
86
,
99
–
100

Messianic hysteria

Jacob Frank
171
–
3

Shabbetai Tzvi
163
–
70

see also
Sabbateans

millenarianism
167

Mishnah
2
–
3
,
5
,
13
,
24
,
26
–
8
,
33
,
40
–
3
,
50
,
55
,
59
,
65
,
90
,
91
,
134
,
205

maggid
134

Maimonides’s commentary
95
,
143

opposition to the Talmud
192

Rabbi Yehuda
159

Talmudic layer
50

see also
compilation of the Talmud; Oral Law

Mishneh Torah
(Maimonides)
96
–
7

misnegdim
176
–
80

modernity
212
–
15

Mohammed
53
–
4
,
62
see also
Islam

Molcho, Solomon
149

monarchy, political theory of
149
–
53

Moore, George Foot
205

Moses, Books of
see
Torah

Moses ben Hanoch
91

Moses ben Nachman
122
–
4

Moses de Leon
127

Moses Isserles of Krakow
135
–
6
,
144
,
157
–
8

Moses the Prophet
9
–
11
,
44

Muhammad al-Idrisi
81

Musar
movement
195

Mu’tazilite school
78

mysticism
10
,
119
–
20
,
126
–
8

Elijah of Vilna
177

Hasidism
174
–
6

see also kabbalah

name of God
164
–
5

Nasi
(title)
22

Gamaliel II
22
–
3
,
157

Hillel I
22
,
32
,
201