Tochachath Megulah Vehatzad Nachash [anti-Sabbatianism]. Two parts in one

AUCTION 28 | Tuesday, April 05th, 2005 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: The Library of the late Professor Abraham J. Karp.

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ERGAS, JOSEPH

Tochachath Megulah Vehatzad Nachash [anti-Sabbatianism]. Two parts in one

FIRST EDITION. The Samuel Schoenblum-Mayer Sulzberger copy ff. (2), 62. With owner’s signature on title: Mordecai Samuel Ghirondi of Padua. Later patterned boards, rubbed. 8vo Vinograd, London 29; Roth, London 8; Mehlman 1700

London: for Moses Hagiz 1715

Est: $500 - $700

PRICE REALIZED $400

A two-pronged attack that sought to censure Nechemiah Hayon, perhaps the most militant champion of Sabbatian revisionism. Ergas’ polemic against Hayon contained both kabbalistic refutations of the legitimacy of Sabbatian mystical belief and harsh invective against Hayon personally. The second part of the volume [“To Ensnare a Serpent”] is a retaliation to Hayon’s attack upon the Chacham Zvi (entitled Hatzad Zvi [“To Ensnare a Deer”]. On Ergas’ role in this controversy see E. Carlebach, The Pursuit of Heresy (1990) pp.137-143; and B. Naor, Post Sabbatian Sabatianism (1999) pp.145-49