Neveh Shalom [philosophy]

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Lot 232

SHALOM, ABRAHAM BEN ISAAC.

Neveh Shalom [philosophy]

Second edition. Title within architectural arch. A few marginalia in Hebrew and French. ff.(4),213,(15). Margin of title torn and repaired. Dampstaining and worming. Later morocco backed boards. 4to Vinograd, Venice 607; Habermann, di Gara 37; not in Adams

Venice: Giovanni di Gara 1575

Est: $300 - $500

PRICE REALIZED $250

A series of homilies on various aggadic passages from the Talmud, interwoven with a philosophical discussion meant to serve as a defense of Maimonides’ reconciliation of Greek philosophy and Jewish thought. The author had a thorough command of the fields of knowledge of his time, for this work is rich in quotations from Greek and Arabic philosophical literature. See EJ, XIV, cols. 1270-1.