Yahvism and Other Discourses.
"The highest reward which mankind can bestow upon the self-sacrificing promoters of human progress...is to keep their personalities and the story of their achievements enshrined in the general memory of all generations": Rabbi Adolph Moses's Yahvism and Other Discourses
Yahvism and Other Discourses.
MOSES, Rabbi Adolph.
Item Number: 146704
Louisville: The Louisville Section of the Council of Jewish Women, 1903.
First edition of this study of religious and abstract thought. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece portrait of Rabbi Adolph Moses. In very good condition with some rubbing to the extremities, bookplate to the front pastedown.
An ancient Semitic religion of the Iron Age, Yahwism was essentially polytheistic and had a pantheon, with various gods and goddesses being worshipped by the Israelites. At the head of this pantheon was Yahweh, held in an especially high regard as the two Israelite kingdoms' national god. "Abstract thought, critical inquiry, radical ideas, and arctic analysis of the objects of knowledge alternated in [Adolph Moses] with a tropical emotionalism and unseverable attachment to the traditions of the past" (H. G. Enelow, Rabbi of Congregation Adath Israel). In his book, 'Yahvism and Other Discourses,' he explores a range of topics from atheism and belief in God to the intersections of music, medicine, and religion.
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