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Rh great books of the world. Despite its faults, its excessive casuistry, its lack of style and form, its stupendous mass of detailed laws and restrictions, it is nevertheless a great book in and for itself. It is impossible to consider it further here in its religions aspects. But something must be said in the next chapter of that side of the Rabbinical literature known as the Midrash.

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 * Graetz.—II, 18–22 (character of the Talmud, end of ch. 22).
 * Karpeles.—Jewish Literature and other Essays, p. 52.
 * Steinschneider.—Jewish Literature, p. 20.
 * Schiller-Szinessy.—Encycl. Brit., Vol. XXIII, p. 35.
 * M. Mielziner.—Introduction to the Talmud (Cincinnati, 1894).
 * S. Schechter.—Some Aspects of Rabbinic Theology, J. Q. R., VI, p. 405. etc.
 * Studies in Judaism (Jewish Publication Society of America, 1896), pp. 155, 182, 213, 233 [189, 222, 259, 283].
 * B. Spiers.—School System of the Talmud (London, 1898) (with appendix on Baba Kama); the Three