Excerpt from The Menorah, Vol. 3: A Monthly Magazine, Official Organ of the B'ne B'rith; July to December, 1887 The author of this family scene has not only sounded the peculiarity of Israel has not only shown himself to be a poet of deep feeling. With a devout appreciation, and more forcibly than whole libraries of historical and critical works, he has disclosed the history, position, and meaning of this Book, which the whole enlightened world knows as the Bible, and which alone must fill up the first period in the history of Jewish Literature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.