Urim VeTumim [commentary to the Books of Isaiah and Jeremiah]

AUCTION 21 |
Thursday, December 04th,
2003 at 1:00
Kestenbaum & Company Holds Inaugural Auction of Hebrew Printed Books & Manuscripts at Their New Galleries
Lot 25
ARAMA, MEIR BEN ISAAC
Urim VeTumim [commentary to the Books of Isaiah and Jeremiah]
Venice: Daniel Zanetti 1603
Est: $500 - $700
PRICE REALIZED $400
Philosophical commentary to Isaiah and Jeremiah. As appendices, commentaries to Samuel II Chaps. 1 and 23.
Meir ben Isaac Arama (1460? -c. 1545) was the son of the famous “Ba’al ha-Akeidah,” author of Akeidath Yitzchak, a favorite commentary to the Pentateuch. It could be suggested that Meir was applying his father’s method to the Prophets and Writings, but his works never gained anywhere near the popularity of his father’s. Born in Saragossa, Meir fled Spain at the time of the Expulsion, after a sort stay in Naples, he eventually sunk roots in Salonika, where he preached to the emigré Aragonian Community.