Della Lingua Propria di Cristo a degli Ebrei Nazionali della Palestina.

AUCTION 63 | Thursday, November 13th, 2014 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Graphic and Ceremonial Art

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Lot 206

ROSSI, GIOVANNI BERNARDO DE.

Della Lingua Propria di Cristo a degli Ebrei Nazionali della Palestina.

<<FIRST EDITION>> pp. (8), xvi, 244, Lightly dampstained. Contemporary gilt-tooled mottled calf, scuffed, corners bumped, backstrip worn, Sm. 4to.

Parma: Stamperia Reale 1772

Est: $200 - $300

PRICE REALIZED $175

The well-known Hebrew scholar De Rossi examines the question of the language spoken in the Holy Land in the time of Jesus and argues against the hypothesis developed by a “recente scrittore italiano” (i.e. D. Diodati) that Jesus’s language was Greek.