Seder Olam Rabah Vezuta Umegilath Ta’anith [anonymous historical narrative]. With commentary by Jacob Emden
AUCTION 23 |
Tuesday, March 30th,
2004 at 1:00
Hebrew Printed Books & Manuscripts from The Rare Book Room of the Jews College Library, London The Third Portion
Lot 95
(EMDEN, JACOB).
Seder Olam Rabah Vezuta Umegilath Ta’anith [anonymous historical narrative]. With commentary by Jacob Emden
Hamburg: Christian Simon Schroeder 1757
Est: $3,000 - $4,000
PRICE REALIZED $6,250
R. Jacob Emden appended to the narrative details relating to Sabbatianism and the Frankists in Poland. Emden takes up a very delicate matter: whether it would be right for the Polish rabbis to denounce the Sabbatians to the Catholic Church and expose them for the immoralists they truly were. Emden answers in the affirmative, and in making a case, demonstrates total familiarity with—of all things!—Pauline literature (quoting chapter and verse from Galatians, Corinthians, and Acts). Emden attempts to resolve glaring contradictions in Paul writings. (Emden, f. 33). An INVALUABLE HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE FRANKIST MOVEMENT IN POLAND.
Also includes a supplement on the Blessing of the Sun