Yamim mi-Kedem [Biblical chronology]

AUCTION 40 | Thursday, June 26th, 2008 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 133

HIRSCHENSOHN, CHAIM

Yamim mi-Kedem [Biblical chronology]

On title, stamp of former owner, Rabbi B. Boruchoff, Malden, Mass pp. (2), 8, 246, 37, (3). Title page starting, few leaves browned. Contemporary boards. 8vo Friedberg, Y-713

Jerusalem: S. Zuckerman 1908

Est: $100 - $150

PRICE REALIZED $50

Attempts to reconcile traditional rabbinic sources, such as Seder Olam, Tosephta, and Talmud with the latest findings of Egyptology. The Author, Chaim Hirschensohn (1857-1935), a native of Jerusalem and a man of iconoclastic opinions, served as Rabbi of Hoboken, New Jersey. See EJ, Vol. VIII, cols. 521-22