The Talmud Tested: A Comparison of the Principles and Doctrines of Modern Judaism with the Religion of Moses and the Prophets - Softcover

Alexander McCaul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0970378475 ISBN 13: 9780970378477

Publisher: Independent History and Research, 2013

Synopsis

Alexander McCaul reproduces on page after page of this volume, passages from the Babylonian Talmud and other sacred rabbinic texts in their original Hebrew and Aramaic, and then translates them into English, so there can be no question of misquoting, or taking out of context. The Talmud Tested is the most convincing and comprehensive Christian textbook on Judaism since Eisenmenger. McCaul was the Victorian Eisenmenger. This is a timeless work, as valuable as a key instructional text for Christian missionaries in the twenty-first century, as it was in the nineteenth. Since it is addressed to Judaic believers in the rabbinic traditions, it serves a dual purpose: to unconverted Judaic people in merciful solicitude for their salvation, and to Christian apologists and evangelists (and scholars and researchers in general), who seek authentic and reliable knowledge of the inner doctrines of the religion of Orthodox Judaism. This edition of The Talmud Tested from Independent History and Research (originally published in 1846 as The Old Paths), represents the clearest and most readable McCaul facsimile on the market, and is supplemented by a new introduction by Michael Hoffman, a leading scholar of Judaism, wherein readers are introduced to McCaul and his world, and the history of his London Society for the Conversion of the Jews, as well as the extent to which Judaic persons were considered the natural object of missionary zeal when Christianity was still worthy of the name.

About this title

About the Author

Alexander McCaul, an Anglican clergyman, was a missionary to the Judaic people of Poland, Germany and England. Born in Dublin, Ireland, he was Professor of Hebrew and Rabbinic Literature at Kings College, London. As an eminent member of the London Society for Promoting Christianity Among the Jews, his missionary endeavors were grounded in a deep and abiding respect for Judaic people. He offered them the Gospel and refuted the errors of the Torah SheBeal Peh (oral law), with kindness and love. He converted many Judaic persons, including rabbis and Talmud scholars.

Review

...an apologetic and polemic almost without rival. WALTER RIGGANS, BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF CHRISTIAN MISSIONS

Alexander McCaul had an unparalleled knowledge of Jewish history, religion and Hebrew. He was the foremost gentile expert on Jewish matters. JOHN J. MOSCROP, MEASURING JERUSALEM

McCaul was an outstanding and tireless scholar. DONALD M. LEWIS, UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA

McCaul composed the most esteemed apologetic directed toward Jews... DAVID W. BEBBINGTON, EVANGELICALISM IN MODERN BRITAIN

...a great missionary power in the evangelization of the Jews. --Rev. William Thomas Gidney

Edition details

• Publisher: Independent History and Research
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0970378475
• ISBN 13: 9780970378477
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 715
• Editor: Michael Hoffman