Conciliator, sive De convenientia locorum S. Scripturae, quae pugnare inter se videntur (On the Harmonization of Places in the Holy Scriptures that Seem to Conflict with One Another)

Published by by the Author, Amsterdam, 1633

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Quarto (19 by 14.6 cm). Collation: [asterisk]4 A-2G4. [8], 240 pp. Woodcut printer's device at title; 4 half-titles; printed marginalia. Text in Latin. Recent full polished calf to style, spine with raised bands. Text lightly toned, with damstaining/spotting (especially at outermost leaves); occasional slight chips or small tears at margins; one leaf with perforation resulting in loss of several letter on each side of page; small perforation in blank field at title. A fairly good copy. First part only of the first Latin edition of this classic work on Jewish apologetics, written by the celebrated rabbi, religious thinker, and printer-publisher, Menasseh ben Israel (1604-1657). The work was first published in Spanish at Amsterdam in four parts between 1632 and 1651. By providing a harmonization of all the apparent contradictions within the Hebrew Scriptures, he hoped to encourage converso Jews of Iberian descent who had lost touch with their religious heritage to make the return to rabbinic Judaism. The present volume deals with the Pentateuch (Five Books of Moses); the second volume treats the Prophetic books and the Hagiographa (Writings). The work was first published a year earlier in a Spanish language edition. The work attempts resolution to no less than 180 seeming discrepancies in the Pentateuch. The breadth of Menasseh's encyclopedic knowledge is vast, the Conciliador contains citations from 221 Jewish and 54 non-Jewish authorities. "No reader could fail to be impressed by the amazing range of titles which the author proudly appended to the work" (Roth). References: Kayserling, p. 69; C. Roth, A Life of Menasseh ben Israel: Rabbi, Printer, and Diplomat (Philadelphia, 1945), p. 88. Silva Rosa 16. Full title and imprint: Conciliator, sive De convenientia locorum S. Scripturae, quae pugnare inter se videntur. Opus ex vetustis, & recentioribus omnibus Rabbinis, magnâ industriâ, ac fide congestum. Amstelodami. Auctoris typis & impensis. M.D C XXXIII.…

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Title
Conciliator, sive De convenientia locorum S. Scripturae, quae pugnare inter se videntur (On the Harmonization of Places in the Holy Scriptures that Seem to Conflict with One Another)
Author
(Bible: Old Testament; Exegesis; Apologetics). Menasseh ben Israel; Vossius, Dionysius (trans.)
Publisher
by the Author, Amsterdam
Publication year
1633
Condition
Good-
Binding
Modern calf
Edition
First edition.
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Since 1985 we offer individual books for sale from our inventory of 150,000 rare, out-of-print and antiquarian volumes on many topics, with an emphasis on Judaica, Hebraica, Bibles and rabbinics, the fine and decorative arts, architecture, photography, textile and wallpaper sample books, Bauhaus and the avant garde, expressionist dance, Olympic Games and sport, the ancient near-east and archeology, erotica, illustrated and foreign-language books, especially German, Yiddish, Polish and Hebrew, as well as books from the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich, plus Russian constructivist materials. We create book collections, both large and small, for individuals, decorators, archives and libraries¿currently available: a 10,000-volume research collection on Judaica in the German language. In addition, we maintain a beguiling selection of original works of art and photography. Eric Chaim Kline provides appraisal services for estate, insurance and tax purposes, often helping to match book donors with libraries and museums. We purchase books of merit and entire collections; we also take books on consignment with favorable terms. We are a rental source for movie and tv production, occasionally providing the prop on which the plot turns. Traveling throughout the U.S. and Europe, Eric Chaim Kline has been buying and selling old and rare books since the 1980¿s, when in graduate school at Brandeis University. Proprietor of bookshops in several Los Angeles locations since 1985, he hosts visitors by appointment in our lively bookstore and ships books to collectors, libraries and museums worldwide. Kline occasionally lectures on topics in book collecting and Jewish studies. He sponsors the annual Bibliography Award granted by the Association of Jewish Libraries and serves on the national board of the Antiquarian Booksellers¿ Association of America. We welcome your inquiries.…

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