Outlines of Jewish History from B.C. 586 to C.E. 1885BOOK III. 100‒1500. STARLIGHT.Reading editionChapter navigation53 reading sectionsGo to chapterChoose a chapter…Front matterOutlines of Jewish HistoryNOTE.PREFACE.DATES OF CHIEF EVENTS AND CHIEF PEOPLE.BOOK I. 500 B.C. TO 70 A.C. IN THE SHADOW OF THE SWORD.Chapter I · THE JEWS IN BABYLON.Chapter II · THE RETURN TO PALESTINE.Chapter III · LIFE IN PALESTINE.Chapter IV · THE MACCABEAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE.Chapter V · PALESTINE UNDER NATIVE RULE.Chapter VI · JUDEA DURING THE REMAINDER OF THE RULE OF THE ASMONEANS.Chapter VII · A NEW DYNASTY.Chapter VIII · REIGN OF HEROD.Chapter IX · JUDEA BEFORE THE WAR.Chapter X · THE WAR WITH ROME.Chapter XI · THE END OF THE WAR.BOOK II. 70 TO 1600. DARKNESS.Chapter XII · AFTER THE WAR.Chapter XIII · THE REVOLT UNDER HADRIAN.Chapter XIV · THE REVIVAL OF THE SCHOOLS: THEIR WORK.Chapter XV · CHRISTIANITY A STATE RELIGION.Chapter XVI · THE BREAK-UP OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE: SOME OF ITS CONSEQUENCES.Chapter XVII · THE RISE OF MAHOMEDANISM. (600‒650.)Chapter XVIII · THE CONQUESTS OF THE KALIPHS: EFFECT, RELIGIOUS AND SOCIAL, ON THE JEWS. (600‒800.)Chapter XIX · LIFE UNDER THE KALIPHS. (700‒1000.)Chapter XX · JEWS IN SPAIN. (711‒1150.)Chapter XXI · JEWS IN SPAIN (continued). (1150‒1492.)Chapter XXII · JEWS IN CENTRAL EUROPE IN THE MIDDLE AGES.Chapter XXIII · JEWS IN CENTRAL EUROPE (continued).Chapter XXIV · JEWS IN ENGLAND. (1066‒1210.)Chapter XXV · JEWS IN ENGLAND (continued). (1216‒1290.)BOOK III. 100‒1500. STARLIGHT.Chapter XXVI · CONCERNING JEWISH LITERATURE AND LITERARY MEN.Chapter XXVII · SOME FIXED STARS.Chapter XXVIII · THE GREATEST OF THE FIXED STARS. MAIMONIDES. (1135‒1204.)Chapter XXIX · DARKNESS BEFORE THE DAWN.Chapter XXX · THE DARKNESS VISIBLE.BOOK IV. 1591‒1885. DAWN.Chapter XXXI · DAWN.Chapter XXXII · MANASSEH BEN ISRAEL.Chapter XXXIII · 48 THE RETURN OF THE JEWS TO ENGLAND.Chapter XXXIV · SPINOZA.Chapter XXXV · IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE, BEFORE THE DAWN.Chapter XXXVI · IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE, BEFORE THE DAWN (continued).Chapter XXXVII · MOSES MENDELSSOHN.Chapter XXXVIII · THE NEXT HUNDRED YEARS. (1780‒1880.)Chapter XXXIX · TWO CENTURIES AND A QUARTER IN ENGLAND. (1660‒1885.)INDEX.GENERAL LISTS OF WORKSA SELECTION OF EDUCATIONAL WORKS.Footnotes.Transcriber’s Note.Previous chapter ←Book 2 — Chapter XXV · JEWS IN ENGLAND (continued). (1216‒1290.)Next chapter →Book 3 — Chapter XXVI · CONCERNING JEWISH LITERATURE AND LITERARY MEN.All chapters and sections (53)Opening pagesFront matterOther sectionsOutlines of Jewish HistoryNOTE.PREFACE.DATES OF CHIEF EVENTS AND CHIEF PEOPLE.Books1Book 1 · Chapters1234567891011Books2Book 2 · Chapters1213141516171819202122232425Books3Book 3 · Chapters2627282930Books4Book 4 · Chapters313233343536373839Book 4 · Other sectionsINDEX.GENERAL LISTS OF WORKSA SELECTION OF EDUCATIONAL WORKS.Footnotes.Transcriber’s Note.לְךָ יוֹם אַף לְךָ לָיְלָה◇PSALM lxxiv. 16.◇‘Then stars arise, and the night is holy.’◇← CHAPTER XXV. JEWS IN ENGLAND (continued). (1216‒1290.)CHAPTER XXVI. CONCERNING JEWISH LITERATURE AND LITERARY MEN. →