id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 44409 Harris, Maurice H. (Maurice Henry) A Thousand Years of Jewish History From the days of Alexander the Great to the Moslem Conquest of Spain .txt text/plain 75453 5730 76 Notes: Persian influence -Judaism as law -Bible When we turn to the religious life of the Jews, the epoch, At its best the Jewish Law tended to sanctify every act of life religious life is called a _Canon_, a Greek word meaning rule. Sabbath day, when he knew religious scruples would prevent the Jews Law and commanding the worship of Greek divinities--"gods that were Read "A Glimpse of the Social Life of the Jews in the Time of Jesus, the Jews of Alexandria and Asia Minor, for Rome's sway reached far. to the Jewish Law. But in later years when many pagans joined this custom and law as the directive power," though Jews may have Jewish law would tolerate a three-fold execution at one time. them salvation without conforming to the burdensome Jewish Law. Furthermore it became a doctrine of the new religion that the death ./cache/44409.txt ./txt/44409.txt