Ma’aseh Yeshu - Ma'aseh Talui.

AUCTION 79 | Thursday, November 15th, 2018 at 1:00 PM

The Valmadonna Trust Library: Further Selections from the Historic Collection. * Hebrew Printing in America. * Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 167

(CHRISTIANITY).

Ma’aseh Yeshu - Ma'aseh Talui.

Hebrew Manuscript <<on vellum>>. Handsome Aschkenazic scribal hand. pp. 25. Integral vellum manuscript wrappers, soiled. 8vo.

n.p: 19th-century

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $1,000

<<One of the most controversial books in history.>> The oldest Jewish anti-Christian text is the Toldoth Yeshu - a biography of Jesus which is entirely at variance with the Gospels. Suggested to date as far back as the First-century, the publication of Toldoth Yeshu was opposed by Jews and non-Jews alike due to its many passages considered to be offensive to Christian sensibilities. Nonetheless, it was widely distributed in manuscript form. See M. Carmilly-Weinberger, Censorship and Freedom of Expression in Jewish History (1977) pp. 184-6; D. Malkiel, The Jewish-Christian Debate on the Eve of Modernity: Joshua Segre of Scandiano and His Asham Talui in: REJ 164:1-2 (2005) pp. 157-86.