Menasshe ben Israel. Conciliador o de la conveniencia de los Lugares de la S. Escriptura que repugnantes entre si parecen.

AUCTION 74 |
Thursday, November 09th,
2017 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Art
Lot 97
(IBERIAN / SEPHARDIC LITERATURE)
Menasshe ben Israel. Conciliador o de la conveniencia de los Lugares de la S. Escriptura que repugnantes entre si parecen.
Amsterdam,: v.d
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
PRICE REALIZED $6,000
The work which won Menasseh ben Israel his scholarly reputation in both Jewish and Christian circles.
Conciliador poses 180 questions, or glaring contradictions in the Bible, which the young Amsterdam rabbi deftly reconciles (hence the title “Conciliator”). Twenty-eight years old at the time of its publication, Menasseh demonstrated his fluency within both Jewish and general literature, citing 221 Jewish and 54 Gentile authors listed in the rear). Cecil Roth, deems this work Menasseh’s “magnum opus.” See C. Roth, A Life of Menasseh Ben Israel (1945) pp. 87-91.