Yamim MiKedem [Biblical chronology]

AUCTION 58 | Thursday, May 02nd, 2013 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Autograph Letters

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Lot 149

HIRSCHENSOHN, CHAIM.

Yamim MiKedem [Biblical chronology]

<<FIRST EDITION>> . Inscribed and signed by the author on the title-page. pp. (2), 8, 246, 37, (3). Original boards, chipped. 8vo. Friedberg, Y-713.

Jerusalem: S. Zuckerman 1908

Est: $150 - $200

PRICE REALIZED $225

Attempts to reconcile traditional rabbinic sources, such as Seder Olam, Tosephta and the Talmud with the latest scholarly findings in the field 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.