THE Jews were made subject to a great number of Legal Observances, because they were a carnal People, who were influenced altogether by sensible things, not at all by any thing spiritual, and least of all by considerations of Faith, and Motives that might affect the Heart. For this Reason it was necessary to provide something of a carnal nature, which might restrain them within the just Bounds of Obedience. Such were the Practices mentioned in the Treatises which we are now upon the Point of producing.
Tractatus Talmudicus Taanith, seu de jejunio, cum Notis Daviel Lundii. Trajecti ad Rhen. 1694. in 8vo. This Author was a Swedish Lutheran, and Professor of the Oriental Languages at Upsal.
Maimonides Tract. de jejuniis, cum interpretatione Joan. Bened. Carpzovii filii. Lipsiæ 1662, in 4to. It is also in Crenius’s seventh Fasciculus, de solemnitate Expiationum.
Josephi Caro, Constitutiones de jejuniis. These were printed, with Observations by Rabbi Moses Iserles, at Venice, 1600. Caro, or rather Carro, was a Jewish Rabbin. Some call him Karo.
Jul. Bartolocci, de jejunio Jud. t. 3. Bibl. Rabb. p. 142.
Joan. Henrici Opicii, de jejuniis Hebrærum, at Kiel, 1680. This is only his Latin Translation of a Treatise written by John George Wasmuth, a Jewish Rabbin.
John. Greg. Angli, de jejunio Noe, per 40 dies Observ. Sacr. c. 6. t. ix. Critic. Sacrorum Londin.
Upon the Baptisms and Purifications in use among the Jews, see Leidecker, de Rep. Hebr. l. 12. c. 9. We shall speak of him lower, in the Article relating to this Republick.
Pocock. Miscellan. c. 9. He speaks only of the Washing of Hands practised by the Jews. We shall mention the Edition of it in another Place. See the Author’s Title in the Index.
Buxtorf, Dissertat. 7. Theol. Philol. de Baptismo Presbyterorum.
Joan. Selden, de Jure nat. & gent. l. 2. c. 4. & de Synedriis, l. 1. c. 3. We shall take notice of the Edition in another Place.
Alting. Heptade 7. Dissert. 7. tom. 5. of his Works. See his Title in the Index.
Hammond and Lightfoot, English Protestants, in their Comments on St. Matthew. See likewise their Title, ibid.
See likewise Fabricius’s Bibliographia Antiquaria, c. 11. numb. 25. where he takes notice of James Ounam, whose Work was printed at Hamburg, 1706. in 8vo. The Title of it, which seems to be worth observing, is, Lotio manuum Judæis usitata ex codice Misnico ad mentem Hebræorum expressa & restituta. He was a German Lutheran. F. le Long calls him James Martin Ovumanne.
Upon the Prayers of the Jews, see Selden, in his Work de Synedriis Hebræorum, l. 3. c. 12.
Dissertatio de Battologia Judæorum, by Balthasar Stolberg. This Dissertation upon the Battology, that is to say, the great number of the Jewish Prayers, is printed in the Thesaurus of Philological Dissertations, with others wrote by him, which will be particularly mentioned by us on St. Matthew, where we shall speak of him.
Misna Tractatus Berachoth. This Treatise on the same Subject is translated into Latin, and to be found in Surenhusius’s Edition of the Mishnah, at the Beginning of the first Tome. We have already spoken of the Author.
De Ritu precandi veterum Hebræorum, by John Saubert, at Helmstadt, 1663.
John Buxtorf likewise, in his Jewish Synagogue, speaks of them, c. 10. the Edition whereof has been mentioned by us. John Lightfoot, in the first Tome of his Works, p. 720. Francis Burman, in his Exercitationes Biblicæ, Part II. p. 45.
De Litanicis Supplicationibus Judæorum & de invocatione SS. Angelorum, by Julius Bartolocci, in the first Tome of his Rabbinical Library, p. 192, and 196. To which may be added George Leopol Ponat de vetusta orantium Judæorum Battologia, at Helmstadt, 1709, in 8vo.