Moisés

1831 · ref. 55595 — Berlin: Published by the author 1831. First edition. Hardcover. Poor to good condition. Small quarto. xlviii. 132pp. Bound in three-quarter blue leather over black pebbled cloth boards with gilt lettering and ruling on spine. Hebrew and German title page. Printed on high quality cotton rag paper. Introduction to the Jerusalem and Babylonian Talmud by renowned German Talmudist Ephraim Moses Pinner see below written before Pinner's Talmud- translation into German. This is the first -and only ever published- volume of a planned series on the Talmud. It covers the origins the language and authenticity of the Talmud as well as a biography of Shimon Bar-Yohai famous Rabbi who lived in the era of the Tannaim scholars of the Mishnah in the area of what is today Israel during the Roman period after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE. Bar-Yohai was one of the most eminent disciples of Rabbi Akiva and is attributed by many with the authorship of the Zohar "The Brightness" the chief work of modern-day Jewish mysticism "Kabbalah". In addition the important legal homilies called Sifre and Mekhilta are attributed to him. Text in Hebrew and German Gothic script. Some wear along edges with lower foredge leather corner missing. Front cover and spine intact but loosened from block with two library plates on inside front cover. Missing fron free endpaper. Jewish title page with some damp-staining and small chip at bottom foredge. Blind-stamped library stamp on title page inked stamp on verso. Leaves at front through page XIII with light damp-staining so are pages XXXIXthrough XLVIII here in margins. Some sporadic light damp-staining on some pages of block more pronounced on pages 130-132. Published by the author hardcover books