Auction 13 · Lot 131

(AMERICAN JUDAICA).

Estimate: $3,000–$5,000
Hammer price: $2,700

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

printer

Daniel Henchman

Place

Boston

Publication

1722

Description

COLMAN, BENJAMIN. A discourse had in the College-Hall at Cambridge, March 27th, 1722. Before the Baptism of R. Judah Monis… to which are added Three Discourses written by Mr. Monis himself, The Truth; The Whole Truth; and, Nothing but the Truth. one of which was deliver’d by him at his Baptism.

references

Rosenbach 17-22; Singerman 15-18; Evans 2324; Sabin 14477

summary

A Colonial American Hebraist, Judah Monis was appointed instructor of Hebrew at Harvard College shortly after his baptism and authored the first American Hebrew grammer, published in Cambridge in 1735. His Discourses are an apology and defense of his new faith and support for the doctrine of the Trinity drawn from the Old Testement with the authority of the Kabbalah. In The Truth, he responds to the nine principal arguments advanced by the modern Rabbis to prove that the Messiah has not yet come. In The Whole Truth, he discusses the true reason why the Jewish Nation are not yet converted to Christianity, and in Nothing But the Truth, he proves the doctrine of the Trinity.

pp. (4),27; (2),4, 6, 36; (2),40; (2), 26. Browned, stained in places, two clean tears neatly repired in final part. Recent blind-tooled tan boards. Sm. 8vo.

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