Philadelphia: The Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning, 1914. Softcover. 4to. Pages 519-76. Original brown wrappers. Introduction to a rare medieval Jewish work on the listing of the 613 commandments in the Bible. Contains sections in Hebrew and Arabic. Wrappers detached, but interior leaves are intact. Overall in fair..... More
New York: Ktav Publishing House, Inc., 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XXI, [1], 253, [1]pp. Original red cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. The present volume consists of essays that deal with matters of belief, ethics, ceremony, and custom which in one way or another are relevant..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. XV, [1], 335, [1]pp. Original printed dust-jacket over burgundy cloth with gold lettering and publisher's device on spine. This remarkable work offers the first translation ever made of all the treatises in Book Twelve of the Code. It consists of..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1955. First edition, second printing. Hardcover. 8vo. (xxi), 236pp. Original printed grey dust jacket with black lettering on covers and spine. Red buckram boards, gilt lettering on spine. The 9th book of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah. Edited by Julian Obermann. Translated from the Hebrew by Herbert..... More
Jerusalem: Shalom Hartman Institute, 1987. Softcover. 8vo. 40 pp. White and purple wrappers. On the issue of pluralistic Judaism, (Conservative, Reform, Reconstrctionist) and religious diversity in general, and its legal and cultural standing in the Land of Israel. Participants include: Paul van Buren, David Hartman and Teddy Kollel, former Mayor of..... More
Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XVIII, 310pp. Original pictorial dust-jacket over cloth, with gold lettering on spine. This challenging work analyzes the recently discovered Qumran text which Yigael Yadin named "The Temple Scroll", but which Ben Zion Wacholder calls the "Qumranic Torah", i.e., the constitution..... More
Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1983. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. [8], 211, [1]pp. Original printed wrappers. Remarkable work on the Tractate Peah (The Corner-Offering for the Poor) which prescribes how Israelite farmers must support poor people by giving them a portion of all crops that grow in the Land of Israel..... More
New York: AMS Press, 1966. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. (xi) 157pp. Red cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. In this work, the author brings together in alphabetical sequence the philosophical terms found in the Tibbon-translation accompanied by the original Arabic expressions, Harizi equivalents, and English explanation. Moreh Nebukim (The Guide..... More
New York: NP, 1923. Softcover. Ex-library. 8vo. 89pp. Original printed wrappers. A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Hebrew literature in the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Heavy age wear, creasing, sunning and chipping on wraps. Head of spine chipped with two-inch..... More
Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1984. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. [8], 214, [2]pp. Original printed wrappers. This fourth volume in Neusner's monumental series on formative Judaism, focuses on the problems of classification and composition. Upper front corner slightly bumped. Wrappers and interior in overall good+ to very good condition. About the..... More
New York: Yeshiva University Press, 1977. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 136, [2]pp. Original printed wrappers. Title page inscribed and signed by Sidney Hoenig. Remarkable monograph on Dr. Samuel Belkin, the late revered President of Yeshiva University and Rosh ha-yeshiva of the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary. Some soiling and rubbing..... More
New York: Yeshiva University, 1972. Softcover. 8vo. 216pp. Illustrated wrappers. Minor age wear. In English. Very good condition. Part of a series: Studies in Torah Judaism (no. 13). More