aude Montefiore: _Hibbert
Lectures_, 1892, p. 465 f.

_ 94 Nehematha_, which means the Messianic hope; see Kohut: Aruch V, 328
and Appendix 59.

95 See B. B. 13 b; Meg. III, 1; IV, 4; comp. Ned. 22 b; Taan. 9 a;
Shab. 104 a; _Sifra_ Behukothai at end; Eccl. R. I, 10; Ex. R.
XXXVIII, 6. Zunz: _Gottesd. Vortr._, 46 f., and art. _Canon_ and
_Bible_ in the various encyclopedias. As to Torah for the whole
Bible, see Mek. Shira I; Sanh. 37 a, 91 b; Ab. Zar. 17 a; M. K. 5 a;
comp. I Cor. XIV, 21; John X, 34; XII, 34; XV, 25. For Torah as
Nomos, or Law, see II Macc. XV, 9.

96 Bousset, l. c., 128-129.

97 On the divine origin of the Torah, see Sanh. 99 a; _Sifra_ Kedoshim
8; Behar I; Behukothay 8. Regarding the meaning of _metammin eth ha
yadayim_ in the sense of taboo for the holy writings, see Geiger:
_Urschrift_, p. 146.

98 Sanh. 99 a; Maim. H. Teshubah III, 8.

99 Comp. Kohler: _Hebrew Union College Annual_, 1904, "The Four Ells of
the Halakah."

100 Deut. XXXIII, 4.

101 Mak. 23 b.

102 Jerem. XXXI, 32.

103 Comp. Schechter, _Aspects_, p. 120-136, and see Ben Sira, XXIV,
8-23; XVII, 11; Baruch III, 38 f.; Apoc. Baruch XXXVIII, 4; XLIV,
16; IV Esdras VIII, 12; IX, 37; Philo: _Vita Mosis_, II, 3, 9; Gen.
R. I; P. d. R. El. III.

104 This apotheosis of the Torah is put in a wrong light by Weber,
_Juedische Theologie_, 157 f., 197, but is stated better in Bousset,
l. c., 136-142.

_ 105 Dibre Kabbalah_, R. h. Sh. 7 a, 19 a; Yer. Halla I, 57 b; see Levy,
W. B., s. v. Kabbalah.

106 The personality of Moses was at first exalted to almost superhuman
height; see _Ben Sira_, XLV, 2; _Assumptio Mosis_, I, 14; XI, 16;
Philo: _Vita Mosis_, III, 39; Josephus: _Antiquities_, IV, 32 b;
Bousset, l. c., 140 f. In contrast to the Church view of Jesus the
rabbis later emphasized the human frailties of Moses: "Never did
divine majesty descend to the habitations of mortal man, nor did
ever a mortal man such as Moses and Elijah ascend to heaven, the
dwelling-place of God," taught Rabbi Jose (Suk. 5 a).

107 See Deut. IV, 6-8; Jer. XXXI, 34-35; Philo: _Vita Mosis_, II, 14;
Josephus: _Apion_, II, 277.

108 See Herodotus, III, 8; IV, 70; Jer. XXIV, 18; H. Clay Trumbull: _The
Blood Covenant_, New York, 1885; Kraetschmar: _D. Bundervors