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The Religion and Worship of the Synagogue: An Introduction to the Study of Judaism from the New Testament Period is unavailable, but you can change that!

For many Christians, the Jewish religion after Christ has seemed vague, mysterious, and even irrelevant. First published in 1907, W. O. E. Oesterley and G. H. Box’s classic The Religion and Worship of the Synagogue filled a void in scholarship on the Jewish tradition written for a Christian audience. It is a handbook for students of comparative religion, Christian theologians, and all those “who...

and in the world to come.” Then, further, it is said, in Chagigah 12b, that a cord of grace is drawn in the future world by God around those who study the Torah; in Genesis R. 23:4 it is said that “the righteous have the power to change the attribute of justice to the attribute of mercy.” The condition of righteousness, however, is strict observance of the Torah; this is the Alpha and Omega of the religion of the Synagogue. As expressive of the high merit attaching to those who study the Torah, it
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