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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
- first
- 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, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. g+ to vg+. 8vo. (lvii), 593 pp. White dust jacket with green and black lettering on covers 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 lightly bumped at head and tail of spine, some light rubbing to dj extremities. Head and tail of binding lightly bumped. 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 #
- 45689
- 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
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0827600518
- ISBN 13
- 9780827600515
- Publisher
- The Jewish Publication Society of America
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- Red heifer, Pessikta, Omer, Midrash, Amalek, Sukkot, Torah studies
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Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
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Santa Monica, California
About Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
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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