Lexicographical Neighbors of Haphtaras
Literary usage of Haphtaras
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Historico-critical Introduction to the Canonical Scriptures of the by Carl Friedrich Keil, George Cunninghame Monteath Douglas, Friedrich Bleek (1882)
"The Mishna repeatedly speaks of the haphtaras, Megill. c. ... 1, several haphtaras
arc named. Yet in general they cannot then have been fixed determinately, ..."
2. The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany by Alvan Lamson, Ezra Stiles Gannett, George Putnam, George Edward Ellis (1853)
"But it appears to us, that these motives for the reading of the haphtaras have
no foundation at all. Antiochus himself could make no distinction between Law ..."
3. The Christian Examiner (1853)
"They, therefore, substituted for the Parashas the haphtaras; or, as the satellites
of Antiochus ... The haphtaras f were the introductions to the lectures. ..."
4. The Origin of the Canon of the Old Testament: An Historico-critical Enquiry by Gerrit Wildeboer (1895)
"3) says of the book of Enoch, "nec in armarium judaicum admittitur," this expression
supposes the possibility that besides the Tora, the haphtaras, ..."
5. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"It was when larger volumes were produced and a fixed order of the haphtaras, or
sections read in the synagogue, had been established, that the question as ..."
6. Canon and Text of the Old Testament by Frants Buhl (1892)
"... with the Parasha division spoken of iu the above section the liturgical division
of the Law into Parashas, and of the Prophets into haphtaras (moan). ..."
7. The New International Encyclopaedia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1906)
"The order of the haphtaras probably was not determined until after the prophetic
canon had been reduced to its present form, leaving out Daniel. ..."
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