, 17. Comp. the legend of Moses and Akiba, Men. 29 b.

19 Comp. Geiger: _Nachgel. Schr._, II, 37-41; also his _Jud. u. s.
Gesch._, I, 20-35; Beck: _D. Wesen d. Judenthums_; Eschelbacher: _D.
Judenthum u. d. Wesen d. Christenthums_; Schreiner, l. c., 26-34.

20 Deut. VI, 7; XI, 19.

21 See Geiger: _Nachgel. Schr._, II, 37 f.

22 John XIV, 6. Comp. Dorner, l. c., 173; and his _Grundprobleme d.
Religionsphilosophie_; Orelli: _Religionsgeschichte_, 276 f.

23 Gen. R. VIII, 5.

24 See Schechter: _Studies_, 147-181 and notes 351 f.; Mendelssohn:
_Ges. Schr._, III, 321. Comp. Schlesinger: _Buch Ikkarim_, 630-632;
Bousset: _Religion d. Judenthums_, 170 f., 175, and thereto Perles:
_Bousset_, 112 f.; Martin Schreiner: l. c., 35 f.; J. E., art. Faith
and Articles of Faith (E. G. Hirsch); Felsenthal, Margolis, and
Kohler, in Y. B. C. C. A. R., 1897, p. 54; 1903, p. 188-193; 1905,
p. 83; Neumark: art. Ikkarim in _Ozar ha Yahduth_; D. Fr. Strauss:
_D. christl. Glaubenslehre_, I, 25.

25 See Gen. XV, 6; Mek. to Ex. XIV; J. E., art. Faith.

26 Deut. VI, 1-6; XI, 13-21; Num. XV, 37-41.

27 See Bousset, II, 224 f. The term _Pistis_ = faith, assumes a new
meaning in Hellenistic Literature.

28 See J. E., art. Emeth we Yatzib.

29 See J. E., art. Alenu.

30 See J. E., art. Abraham in Apocryphical and Rabbinical Lit.

_ 31 Sifra_ Behukothai, III, 6; _Sanh._ 38 b; _Targ. Y._ to Gen. IV, 8.

32 Ber. II, 2; see Kohler: _Monatsschrift_, 1883, p. 445.

33 Kohler, l. c.

34 The Mishnaic _Apicoros_ corresponded to the Greek, _Epicoureios_,
and was no longer understood by the Talmudists; see Schechter:
_Studies in Judaism_, I, 157. It is defined by Josephus:
_Antiquities_, X, 11, 7: "The Epicureans ... are in a state of
error, who cast Providence out of life, and do not believe that God
takes care of the affairs of the world, nor that the universe is
governed by a Being which outlives all things in everlasting
self-sufficiency and bliss, but declare it to be self-sustaining and
void of a ruler and protector ... like a ship without a helmsman and
like a chariot without a driver." Comp. also Oppenheim in
_Monatsschr._, 1864, p. 149.

35 See Rappaport; "Biography of R. Hananel," in _Bikkure ha Ittim_,
1842.

_ 36 Contra Apionem_, II, 22. See J. G. M