Joseph McCabe (1867-1955) was one of the most prolific authors of all time. He was brought up as a Roman Catholic, worked on Latin documents, and made himself very well-informed about Christianity, but turned against it. But he was extremely naive about Jews; bear this in mind.
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Special note on the Talmud: McCabe seems to have regarded Jews as a tribe, including scribes, who contributed to early Christianity; it's not clear to me how McCabe assessed Jews, given that McCabe had no high opinion of Catholicism.
Bear in mind that Jews regard non-Jews as animals, if that, and take the view that, if they can profit, non-Jews may be freely destroyed. So any group controlled or infiltrated by Jews can reasonably be suspected of killings, in this case of course of Christians. Jewish pretenders were active against monarchies and aristocracies. Crypto-Jews existed in all states and seemed to have in effect a nation of their own, split among towns which we generally accessible by ships.
But McCabe never considered or knew of any of this, as far as I know, as the entry below seems to show. (There are other mentions of the Talmud in McCabe's Rationalist Encyclopedia, but they are rather feeble) - Rae West
Bear in mind that Jews regard non-Jews as animals, if that, and take the view that, if they can profit, non-Jews may be freely destroyed. So any group controlled or infiltrated by Jews can reasonably be suspected of killings, in this case of course of Christians. Jewish pretenders were active against monarchies and aristocracies. Crypto-Jews existed in all states and seemed to have in effect a nation of their own, split among towns which we generally accessible by ships.
But McCabe never considered or knew of any of this, as far as I know, as the entry below seems to show. (There are other mentions of the Talmud in McCabe's Rationalist Encyclopedia, but they are rather feeble) - Rae West
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Talmud
J. McCabe, Rationalists Encyclopaedia
Talmud, The. The word means "the teaching," and the book is in fact a collection of the teaching of the Jewish rabbis from the beginning of the Christian era. The canon of sacred writings was closed after the Ezraist revision [see] [NB there is no such entry—RW] and it was forbidden to write further religious books. As the commentaries on the Law and the Prophets of the more famous rabbis multiplied, and the ban on writing had led to a remarkable cultivation of memory in the schools, it was decided in the second century A.D. to make a collection of them, and the compilers went from school to school throughout the Jewish world. This compilation is the oldest and most valuable part of the Talmud, the Mishna. The later or supplementary collection is known as the Gemara, and differs in the Babylonian (which is the version usually quoted) and the Palestinian Talmuds. The works were not written until the fourth and fifth centuries. They contain a vast amount of tedious and hairsplitting commentary on the Law, but the accounts of the moral teaching of the earlier rabbis are interesting because they confirm that there is not a single moral sentiment attributed to Jesus in the Gospels that was not current in the Jewish schools at the time, and that the Gospel parables [see] were mainly taken from the rabbis and were generally reduced in moral and intellectual quality by the compilers of the Gospels. See M. L. Rodkinson, Has Midrash (1903), and McCabe's Sources of the Morality of the Gospels (1914). The latest and best English translation of the Talmud is The Babylonian Talmud (1935, etc.).Return to Joseph McCabe Selection
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