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About the Book
During the Tisza-Eszlar blood libel trial in
1883, when August Rohling undertook to attest on oath that Jews practiced ritual
murder, Bloch attacked him in the press. He challenged Rohling's competence as a
scholar, accused him of lying, and offered him 3, 000 florins for translating a
random page of the Talmud. Rohling was forced to sue Bloch for libel, ...

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An
Excerpt from the Book
I. Fear and Love.
Wellhausen, in the chapter Jewish Piety of his History
of the Israelites and Jews, says:
The motive of morals by which they become religious is the
fear of God. God is a severe master. He rules vassals whom he calls from the
dust, and again changes into dust.
The desire for an impressive formula for the new idea of God
appear...
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