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Pesikta de-Rab Kahana: R. Kahana's Compilation of Discourses for Sabbaths and Festal Days
by Kahana, R. Braude, William G. (Gershon Zev); Kapstein, Israel J., Trans
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- g+ to vg+
- ISBN 10
- 0827600518
- ISBN 13
- 9780827600515
- Seller
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About This Item
Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1978. Second Impression. Hardcover. g+ to vg+. 8vo. lvii, 593 pp. White dust jacket with green and black lettering on front cover and spine. White cloth boards with green lettering and gilt ruling on spine. Green endpapers. Work of Midrashic Literature on the Shabbath and Jewish High Holidays (see bellow). Translated from Hebrew and Aramaic. Dust jacket with some small closed tears to top and bottom edges of front and back covers, and head and tail of spine. Small chip to top edge of dj. Light smudges to front and back covers. Spine of dj with offsetting from previously attached sticker. Interior with stamp of previous owner to bottom right corner of front free endpaper, title page and along top edge of book. Dust jacket in overall good+, Binding and interior in very good+ condition. Long known only to scholars and specialists, Pesikta de-Rab Kahana is a masterpiece of Midrashic literature. A collection of discourses for special Sabbaths and festival days compiled and organized during the fifth century, it was well known and studied from the end of that century until it disappeared sometime in the sixteenth century. From manuscripts discovered in 1868 and still others 100 years later, it was reborn. In 1975 JPS brought it to English readers through Braude and Kapstein's translation. (Source: Jewish Publication Society).
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- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 40949
- Title
- Pesikta de-Rab Kahana: R. Kahana's Compilation of Discourses for Sabbaths and Festal Days
- Author
- Kahana, R. Braude, William G. (Gershon Zev); Kapstein, Israel J., Trans
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - g+ to vg+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Impression
- ISBN 10
- 0827600518
- ISBN 13
- 9780827600515
- Publisher
- The Jewish Publication Society of America
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1978
- Keywords
- Red heifer, Pessikta, Omer, Midrash, Amalek, Sukkot, Torah studies
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Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
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We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.
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