Lipsiae: Apud haer. Joh. Frid. Braunii 1736. 4to 21.4 cm 8.4". 30 736 735�39 737�1216 96 pp. <br><br>Sole edition: Edited by theologian Johann Gerhard Meuschen 1680�1743 this volume presents a prominent Christian Hebraist's analysis of alleged Talmudic references to Jesus and the New Testament accompanied by a variety of contemporary writings similarly focused on how Jewish texts could shed light on the New Testament. In addition to Balthasar Scheidt 1614�70 professor of Oriental languages at the University of Strasbourg also represented here are Johann Andreas Dantz a.k.a. Danz or Dans 1654�1727 Herman Wits and Jakob Rhenferd 1654�1712; the largest part of the volume including several treatises on Jewish baptismal rites is by Dantz professor of Hebrew and theology at Jena noted for his strictly Christological interpretation of the Old Testament.<br> The title-page here is in red and black sporting an engraved title vignette. Ornamented with woodcut head- and tailpieces the latter repeated once and a few woodcut initials the primarily Latin text incorporates numerous quotations printed in Hebrew several in Greek three in Arabic and one in Syriac; the sole German quotation is printed in black-letter.<br> Provenance: Bookplate of Johann Christian Wilhelm Diederichs 1750�81 a philosopher and professor of Oriental languages at G�ttingen and K�nigsberg laid in along with those of two seminaries plates formerly affixed to front pastedown. Front fly-leaf and one page each with an inked annotation in the same 18th-century hand possibly Diederichs'. Recent speckled paper�covered boards spine with printed paper label; title-page with faded 19th-century institutional rubber-stamp and bottom edges with another stamp lower outer portion of Diederichs bookplate partially torn away. Two leaves each with small paper flaw one marginal one affecting a few letters without loss of sense; a few corners dog-eared. Pages gently age-toned with minor to moderate offsetting and occasional slight spotting; first and last few leaves with margins browned by offsetting from old binding. Two early inked annotations as above and a scattered handful of small inked text corrections. => A thick sturdy fistful of a book. Apud haer. Joh. Frid. Braunii hardcover