Ma’ayenei HaYeshu'ah [commentary on the eschatological chapters in the Book of Daniel]
AUCTION 46 |
Thursday, September 10th,
2009 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, & Graphic Art
Lot 5
ABRABANEL, DON ISAAC
Ma’ayenei HaYeshu'ah [commentary on the eschatological chapters in the Book of Daniel]
(Ferrara): Samuel Gallus (Zarfati) 1551
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
PRICE REALIZED $3,250
Following the Spanish Expulsion of the Jews in 1492, the survivors of the catastrophe, including Don Isaac Abrabanel, struggled to comprehend their suffering and were seized with acute passions of Messianism. Ma'ayenei HaYeshu'ah (“Wells of Salvation”) is the first book of Abrabanel's trilogy on the imminence of the Messiah's coming. See Benzion Netanyahu, Don Isaac Abravanel: Statesman and Philosopher (1968) pp. 77-8.