Meir Nathiv [Biblical concordance]
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Meir Nathiv [Biblical concordance]
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First Edition of the First Hebrew Concordance of the Bible.
The author prepared this work to assist Jews engaged in polemical debate with Christians. The text is ordered according to the roots and stems of the words, and the Biblical Books are arranged according to the order of the Vulgate.
On the identity of the author, see A. Tauber, Kiryat Sepher Vol. II, pp. 141-44, reprinted in Mechkarim Bibliographiyim, pp. 59-62. Tauber takes issue with Graetz and Reggio who state that Isaac Nathan is the author. Tauber maintains that Isaac wrote only the introduction, while the actual compiler was his relative Mordechai Nathan