Der Babylonische Talmud in seinen haggadischen Bestandtheilen. Wortgetreu übersetzt und durch Noten erläutert von Lic. Dr. Aug. Wünsche. Zweiter Halbband. 1. Abteilung.
Leipzig: Otto Schulze, 1887. Hardcover. 8vo. viii. 378pp. 3/4 leather over black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Raised bands. Marbled page edges. Illustrated German title page, followed by additional title page in Latin. Part 2 of a scholarly work on the Babylonian Talmud. Writtten by distinguished Christian Hebraist August Wünsche (see below). Minor age wear, especially to leather, with splitting on top alongside spine. Endpaper starting to split but still attached. Minor browning. Otherwise clean and tight. In German. Very good condition. vg. Item #18627
On August Wünsche (Source: Jewish Encyclopedia):
German Christian Hebraist; born at Hainewalde July 22, 1839. He has devoted his attention almost exclusively to rabbinic literature. After completing his commentaries on Hosea (1868) and Joel (1872), he wrote "Neue Beiträge zur Erläuterung der Evangelien aus Talmud und Midrasch" (1878), the most complete collection of the parallel passages of the Talmud and the New Testament since the works of Lightfoot and Schöttgen. In his "Bibliotheca Rabbinica" (Leipsic, 1880-85) he made a German translation of the whole of the Midrash Rabbah and the Midrash to the Five Megillot, and he has also translated haggadic portions of the Jerusalem Talmud (1880) and of the Babylonian Talmud (1886-89), as well as the Pesi?ta (1885) and the Midrash to the Psalms (1891). Smaller works of his are: "Die Rätselweisheit bei den Hebräern" (1883); "Die Freude im Alten Testament" (1896); "Naturbildersprache des Alten Testaments" (1897); and "Die Schönheit der Bibel" (Leipsic, 1905). Together with Winter he compiled the "Geschichte der Jüdischen Litteratur" (3 vols., Leipsic, 1892-95), the best existing anthology of Jewish literature in a modern language.Bibliography: Kürschner, Deutscher Litteratur-Kalender.S. J.
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