FLEURY CLAUDEBiblio.com
Fleury, Abbe (Claude)Biblio.com
Moeurs des Israelites et des Chretiens
1804réf. 30660Avignon: François Chambeau 1804. Nouvelle edition. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo. 382pp. 2. Text in French. Contemporary brown leather covered boards with raised bands red title-plate and ribbon marker. Red speckled edges. Title page with engraving of a person carrying a cross and a lamp. A comparison of Jewish and Christian practices by Abbé Claude Fleury a leading early 18th century French cleric and the confessor to Louis XV. The vast majority of Fleury's section on Judaism deals with biblical Israel with a brief discussion at the end as to how post biblical Judaism degenerated into Pharisees Sadducees and Essenes before moving on to Christianity which Fleury saw as the true heir to the biblical religion. His understanding of Judaism came largely from the Bible Josephus Church fathers such as Origen Tertullian and Clement of Alexandria and Johannes Buxtorf. Binding rubbed along edges and on covers. Water-staining at tail of spine. Previous owner's bookplate on inside of front board. Some foxing and light water-staining along edges of endpapers and fly-leaves else a very good copy. François Chambeau hardcover
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