Lemberg: Jakob Ehrenpreis, 1877. First edition. Hardcover. Small Quarto. 55 (7) leaves. Original three quarter cloth over black paper-covered boards. Pink end papers. Two title pages with decorative ruling. Chapters with decorative head and end pieces emphasizing the name of the Parasha (weekly reading of the Torah). Advertising for publisher's..... More
Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion, 1924. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. XV, 231 pp. Brown cloth covered boards with gold lettering on front cover and spine. Signed on title page by former owner, Harry Orlinsky, who is an interesting figure. A Reform Jew, he participated in a...... More
Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 2016. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9 3/4 x 7"). 260pp. Original photo-illustrated paper covered boards. "1 Esdras is an alternative version of the book of Ezra-Nehemiah in the Septuagint. Most Eastern Orthodox churches accord the book canonical status. This is the first commentary on 1 Esdras based..... More
New York: Histadrut "Ahiver" 1914. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. 23 pp. Original paper wraps. Book is extremely scarce, as OCLC only lists five libraries worldwide in possession of this item. The title means "Political Ideal of the (Hebrew) Prophets." The author was a well known and influential scholar, author of..... More
New York: American Tract Society, ca. 1839. Hardcover. 12mo. 198pp. Blind-stamped black cloth with gold decoration on spine. Some age wear to binding. Includes the books Samuel and Ruth. Each section with frontispiece. Sporadic foxing and water staining throughout. Fair to poor condition. More
Urbana: The University of Illinois, 1919. First edition. Softcover. Large Octavo. 59pp. Original gray wraps with black lettering on cover. Based on a manuscript in the Bodleian Library of Oxford. "The first part of our MS. was finished on the ninth of adar, 5304=February, 1544 by the scribe Joseph, son..... More
Frankfurt am Main: J. Kauffmann, 1920. Hardcover. 8vo. 118,[2],pp. Brown & tan cloth with title in black on cover and spine. Staining and age wear to binding. Front board and spine almost detached from book block, split front joint Signature of previous owner on free front endpaper. Age toning to..... More
New York: KTAV Publishing House, Inc., 1968. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. xiii,626pp. Gray cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Some scuffing to boards and light blue stain on back cover. Rubbing to corners. A wonderful book on the history of the Greek Old Testament, its transmission, literary use and..... More
London: Luzac & Co., 1936. Hardcover. 8vo. XXXII. 301 + (2) + (16 pages of Egyptian Hieroglyph comparison and analyses) pp. Red cloth. Errata slip attached. Some sunning to spine, bumping to crown and bottom of spine. Some minor scuffing to rear board. Otherwise book is in very good condition..... More
Tel Aviv: Am Oved Publishers, 1970-72. First edition. Hardcover. 3 of 5 volumes. 8vo. 1036pp. 906pp. 876pp. Original ivory cloth with gold lettering on cover and red title-label. Anointed edition of the Old Testament. Includes Pentateuch and Prophet sections. Text in Hebrew. Covers foxed. Heads and tails of spines slightly..... More
Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion, 1954. Revised. Softcover. 8vo. 79pp. Quarter cloth over original wraps. Bottom corner of back wrapper slightly creased. Minor staining to wraps. Mimeographed typescript. Originally published in 1940-41. Very good condition. Rare. More
Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion, 1956. Revised. Softcover. 8vo. 26pp. Quarter cloth over original wraps. Some sunning and minor staining to wraps. Mimeographed typescript. Originally published in 1942-43. Very good condition. Rare. More
New York: The United Synagogue of America, 1917. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo.220pp. Original grey cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. This manual attempts to assist the teacher of Biblical history from the point of view of Traditional Judaism. Moderate rubbing along edges. Spine sunned. Minor offsetting on..... More
NP: Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis, 1898. Reprint. Softcover. 8vo. iv, pp. 111 - 148, reprinted from Journal of Biblical Literature (1989 Part II). Original paper wrappers bound in paper boards with gray binder's tape. Ex library copy. Inscribed on front endpaper by the author. In this work, the..... More
Berlin: Trowitsch & Son, 1924. Hardcover. 4to. 100pp. Black cloth with gold lettering to cover. "Vanity of Vanities, sayeth the Lecturer, Vanity of Vanities, all is Vanity." One of the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, this work is ascribed to King Solomon. It consists of personal matter with reflections..... More
Philadelphia: Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis, 1949. First edition. Softcover. 4to. 102pp. Original brown wrappers. Scholarly analysis of the Syriac Peshitto translation of Second Samuel, the oldest with the exception of the Septuagint. Text contains passages in Syriac. Date stamp on front wrapper. Signature from previous owner on title-page..... More
New York: MacMillan and Co., 1894. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xxiv,148pp. Maroon cloth with blind-embossed border on front board and gold lettering on cover and spine. Title-page printed in red and black. Interesting collection of essays by Joseph Jacobs dealing with various aspects of Biblical Archaeology. The essays originally appeared..... More
Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1927. 8vo. 138 pp. In English. Gray board, book condition: Very Good. Reprinted from the Hebrew Union College Annual, Volume IV. More
Amsterdam: J. L. Joachimsthal, 1878. Sixth edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xxxvi, 92,86, 68. Three-quarter brown cloth over red cloth with red title-label. First three books of the Pentateuch, Genesis through Leviticus, in Hebrew with a Dutch translation. Title-pages for each individual book. Includes Haftorah readings. The book was first printed in..... More
Göttingen: V&R unipress; Bonn University Press, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9 1/4 x 6 1/4"). 386pp. Original printed paper covered boards, with black and white lettering to spine and covers. "Chapters 60-62 of the book of Isaiah are considered to be key texts for explaining the origins of the..... More
Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars Press, 1987. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. XXI, [1], 103, [1]pp. Original printed wraps. Fascinating work on the figure of divine Wisdom (Greek: Sophia) which spans a literary and iconographic history that emerges in, but is not confined to, the Hebrew Bible, Hellenistic Judaism, and early Christian literature..... More
Society of Biblical Literature, 1972. Softcover. This work is singed in blue pen by H.M. Orlinsky at title page- it appears to be his copy. 8vo. 245pp. Wrappers. Written in different mimeographed typescripts. Age wear and repair to binding, especially at spine. Additional signature to title page. Inside otherwise clean..... More
Oxford: Clarendon press, 1982. Hardcover. 8vo. Unpaginated. Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine in original dust jacket. A look at main types of copyists' errors in the Hebrew Bible. Very minor scuffing and creasing on dj, small closed tear along tail of spine on back of dj. Markings in..... More