SPIRA, JUDAH LEIB (FRANKFURTER, LOEB)
AUCTION 24 |
Tuesday, June 29th,
2004 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Ceremonial Art and Holy Land Maps Including Ceremonial Art from the Collection of Daniel M. Friedenberg
Lot 203
SPIRA, JUDAH LEIB (FRANKFURTER, LOEB)
Est: $400 - $600
The author is concerned with arriving at the peshat or simple meaning of the Bible and his method is a careful etymological analysis of each word. It is possible Spira was inspired in this approach by the Bi’ur of Mendelssohn. The author, a resident of Frankfurt, was a great-uncle of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch who quotes the former in his commentary to the Pentateuch. See E.M. Klugman, Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch: A Biography (1996), pp. 2-3