Political Silence — Religious activity — The Bible Canon. Notes: Persian influence — Judaism as law — Bible books.

Alexander the Great — Judea part of Greco-Egypt — Joseph the Satrap. Note: Greek and Jew.

The High Priest's office sold — Religious Persecution — Judas Maccabeus — Feast of Hanukkah — The Book of Daniel. Note: Immortality.

Death of Judas — Jonathan — Death of Eleazar — Independence

I. Esdras — II. Esdras — Tobit — Judith — Additions to Esther — Wisdom Literature: Wisdom of Solomon — Ecclesiasticus — Baruch — Song of the Three Holy Children — History of Susanna — Bel and the Dragon — Prayer of Manasses — I. Maccabees — II. Maccabees

Egypt — The Septuagint — Onias and his temple

Chapter VII. Pharisees and Sadducees.

Simon — Hyrcanus I. — Pharisees and Sadducees — Essenes

Aristobulus — Alexander Janneus — Queen Salome Alexandra — The "Pairs."

Aristobolus II. — Prayer of Onias — Pompey takes Jerusalem.

Growth of Rome — From First Triumvirate to Empire — Herod enters on the scene — The last Hasmonean ruler.

Herod as man — Herod as builder — Herod as father. Note: Edom, type of Rome.

Hillel as moralist — Hillel as legislator — Last days — Shammai. Note: Law and equity.

Antipas and John the Baptist — The last Herodian — Judea part of a Roman province.

Chapter XIV. Pilate the Procurator.

Procurators in general — Pilate in particular — Proselytes.

The Messianic hope — Jesus the man — Jesus the Messiah — Christianity — Teachings of Jesus. Note: The Crucifixion.

Jew and Greek — Jewish Missionaries.

His Bible Commentary — His philosophy — The Logos — His Ethics.

The mad emperor Caligula — Agrippa's youth — Agrippa the king — Agrippa slain — Agrippa II.

The Zealots — The Sicarii.

Revolution — A peace party — Josephus.

The North succumbs — Rival parties in Jerusalem.

Masada, the last fortress — The remnant again.

His early life — Josephus vs. Jeremiah — His "History of the Jews" — "Contra Apion." Note: Josephus and Christianity.

The Academy at Jamnia — Prayer replaces sacrifice — Halacha and Agada.

R. Gamaliel — R. Joshua — Ordination of rabbis — The Prayer Book.

The development of Christianity — Old and New Testaments — Gnostics. Note: Jewish Scripture and Church doctrine.

Proselytes again — Revolt against Trajan — Hadrian's "Promise."

Love and Law — Akiba's Ethics.

Bar Cochba — General Severus — Martyrdom.

Mair and Beruria — Judah ha-Nasi — Other famous teachers.

Written and Oral Law — Quotations — Amoraim.

The Resh Galutha — Rab and Samuel — Babylonian Schools. Note: Patriotism and Judaism.

Rome's decline — Why Christianity appealed to Romans — Judaism and Christianity contrasted — The Calendar.

Julian — Two Roman Empires — Goths and Vandals — Persecution of the Jews.

The Gemara — The contents — Talmudic Literature — SaborÄim. Note: Law of the Talmud.

God — Providence — Prayer — Righteousness — Study of the Law — Education in general — Parents and children — Woman.

Work — Truth — Justice and Honesty — Kindness — Charity — Humility and Patience — Sin — Repentance — Death and immortality — Wit and Humor.

In the Byzantine Empire — Laws of Justinian — Jews again involved in war — Rome's successors — Italy — The Popes — Slavery and trade.

Gaul and the Franks — Vicissitudes in Spain.

The land and the people — Arabian Jews — Jussef the Proselyte — Samuel the chivalrous.

The Hegira.

Christianity and Islam — The Koran or the Sword — The Spread of Islam — Fall of Visigothic Spain.