Introductory material
Reading edition
From a drawing in the Jewish Encyclopædia. By permission.
“Assured the trial, fiery, fierce, but fleet, Would, from his little heap of ashes, lend Wings to that conflagration of the world Which Christ awaits ere He makes all things new: So should the frail become the perfect, rapt From glory of pain to glory of joy.” Browning, The Ring and the Book, x. 1797