She’iltoth [Halachah as derived from the Pentateuch]
AUCTION 28 |
Tuesday, April 05th,
2005 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: The Library of the late Professor Abraham J. Karp.
Lot 4
ACHAI GAON
She’iltoth [Halachah as derived from the Pentateuch]
Venice: Daniel Bomberg 1546
Est: $600 - $800
PRICE REALIZED $750
The first work attributed to an author after the close of the Talmudic era. In the nineteenth century, R. Naphtali Zevi Judah Berlin (“NeZIV”), famed dean of the Volozhin Yeshivah, published a commentary to the work, “Ha'amek She'elah.” In the twentieth century, Prof. Samuel Kalman Mirsky of Yeshiva University published a critical edition of the She'iltoth