Wülfer, Johann. Theriaca Judaica. * Bound with Vindex Sanguinis (Amsterdam: Adam Jongbloet, 1681). pp. (2), 3-20.

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Wülfer, Johann. Theriaca Judaica. * Bound with Vindex Sanguinis (Amsterdam: Adam Jongbloet, 1681). pp. (2), 3-20.

German, Judeo-German, and Latin. Separate German title of Jüdischer abgestreiffter Schlangen-Balg (Nuremberg, 1680), and Judeo-German title of Jüdischer Teriac (Altdorf, 1680). Kabbalistic diagram between pp. 74-75. Headpieces and tailpieces, and historiated initials pp. (18), 44; ff. (1), 37, (3); pp. (2), 392, (22). Browned. Contemporary calf; 4 raised bands on spine, distressed. Thick 4to Freimann, p. 416; Steinschneider 7399-2; Friedberg, Y-364

Nuremberg: 1681

Est: $1,200 - $1,800

PRICE REALIZED $1,000

Jüdischer abgestreiffter Schlangen-Balg, by the apostate Jew, Samuel Friedrich Brenz, provoked a refutation in Yiddish by Solomon (Zalman) Zevi Aufhausen; that book, in turn, was refuted by the Christian Hebraist Johann Wülfer (1651-1724). Wülfer’s Theriaca Judaica reproduces Brenz’s German diatribe against the Jews, followed by Aufhausen’s Yiddish defense, which Wülfer then translates into Latin and refutes point by pount. Thus we have three works in one. See E. Carlebach, Divided Souls: Converts from Judaism in Germany 1500-1750 (2001), pp. 214, 284, n. 46