Michael G Wechsler (22 results)

Paperback. in English and Hebrew. Cover slightly worn on facing. Otherwise pristine 414 pp.

Casebound Hardcover. Author's inscription on ffep. Hebrew text. Light pencil markings Cover dented on corners and back upper edge. Otherwise VG 430 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: New. xiv, 430, 34 pages ; 23 cm. Text of original work given in Judeo-Arabic and English translation. Commentary chiefly in English. This volume consists of a critical edition, English translation, and extensive introductory discussion of the Judaeo-Arabic commentaries on Ruth and Esther from the exegetical digest (Kitāb al-bayān) of Tanḥum ben Joseph ha-Yerushalmi (d. 1291 CE), the last known exegete of the rationalistic school who wrote in Judaeo-Arabic. Although past scholarship has tended to regard Tanḥum s exegetical contribution as little more than that of a compiler-abridger, our own assessment, as explored in the introduction, is that his role was in fact much more significant. Not only does he display the critical acumen and intellectual independence of a true exegete in his own right, but he also appears to have assimilated and hence (like Abraham ibn Ezra) mediated into the continuum of Rabbanite exegesis certain elements of Karaite exegesis, most notably, as developed by the tenth-century Karaite littérateur Yefet ben Eli, the role of the mudawwin in the composition and transmission of the biblical text.…

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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This volume comprises an edition and translation of one of the earliest specimens of Jewish programmatic commentary on the book of Esther. The commentary's author, Salmon b. Yero?am, is a central early figure in the 'Golden Age' of Karaism (late-9th-11th cent.), a Jewish scripturalist and penitential movement centered at that time in Jerusalem. Among the various facets of Salmon's commentary that we explore in our introduction are his translation technique, exegetical method, homiletical emphases, and polemical concerns. We also explore his use of sources, both explicit and tacit (in the latter case to a surprisingly broad degree as regards rabbinic sources and Saadia), as well as the reception of Salmon's commentary in subsequent Jewish exegetical tradition.…

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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This volume presents a critical edition of the Judaeo-Arabic translation and commentary on the book of Esther by Saadia Gaon (882-942). This edition, accompanied by an introduction and extensively annotated English translation, affords access to the first-known personalized, rationalistic Jewish commentary on this biblical book. Saadia innovatively organizes the biblical narrative--and his commentary thereon--according to seven 'guidelines' that provide a practical blueprint by which Israel can live as an abased people under Gentile dominion. Saadia's prodigious acumen and sense of communal solicitude find vivid expression throughout his commentary in his carefully-defined structural and linguistic analyses, his elucidative references to a broad range of contemporary socio-religious and vocational realia, his anti-Karaite polemics, and his attention to various issues, both psychological and practical, attending Jewish-Gentile conviviality in a 10th-century Islamicate milieu.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 413 pages. 9.75x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. bilingual edition. 380 pages. 10.00x7.00x1.25 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. bilingual edition. 670 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.50 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

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