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Published by München: Max Hueber Verlag, 1969, 1969
Seller: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, U.S.A.
Altmann, Alexander, 1906-1987, (contributor). Lessing Yearbook I. München: Max Hueber Verlag, 1969, 1. Auflage, 294pp., very good dust-jacket, very good blue cloth, previous owner's name: H. Zohn. Includes two substantial contributions by Alexander Altmann, "Briefe Karl Gotthelf Lessings an Moses Mendelssohn" (9-59) and "Die Entstehung von Moses Mendelssohns Phädon" (200-33).
Published by Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1982, 1982
Seller: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, U.S.A.
Altmann, Alexander, 1906-1987, (Festschrift). Mystics, philosophers, and politicians: essays in Jewish intellectual history in honor of Alexander Altmann. Edited by Jehuda Reinharz and Daniel Swetschinski with the collaboration of Kalman P. Bland. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1982, xii, 372pp., very good gray cloth, previous owner's name in ink and name stamp of his private collection on front endpaper. Duke monographs in medieval and Renaissance studies ; no. 5. - CONTENTS: Alexander Altmann: a portrait / Daniel Swetschinski -- Merkavah speculation at Qumran: the 4Q Serekh Shirot 'Olat ha-Shabbat / Lawrence H. Schiffman -- Moses and the law according to Maimonides / Kalman P. Bland -- Maimonides on possibility / Alfred L. Ivry -- Principles of Judaism in Maimonides and Joseph ibn Caspi / Barry Mesch -- The Jewish philosophical critique of transubstantiation / Daniel J. Lasker -- The absolute freedom of the divine will in the philosophy of Abraham Bibago / Allan Lazaroff -- Maggidic revelation in the teachings of Isaac Luria / Lawrence Fine -- "How profitable the nation of the Jews are": the humble addresses of Menasseh ben Israel and the Discorso of Simone Luzzatto / Benjamin Ravid -- Rabbi Nahman Bratslaver's journey to the land of Israel / Arthur Green -- From patriot to Israelite: Abraham Furtado in revolutionary France / Frances Malino -- Ethnicity and Jewish solidarity in nineteenth-century France / Phyllis Cohen Albert -- Leadership and charisma: the case of Theodor Herzl / Jehuda Reinharz and Shulamit Reinharz -- Rosenzweig and Kant: two views of ritual and religion / Paul R. Mendes-Flohr. 9780822304463 ISBN 0822304465.