Chazon LaMo’ed [commentary to the Book of Daniel, with text]

VALERIO, SAMUEL BEN JUDAH

Giovanni di Gara

Venice

1586

FIRST EDITION. Title within wreathed architectural arch.

Vinograd, Venice 689; Habermann, di Gara 79; Adams V-58

Valerio, was a physician, who lived in the “Morea,” the Greek mainland, in the second half of the sixteenth century. The colophon informs us the commentary—of a philosophical bent—was completed in the village of Chalandrisa, half a day's journey from Patras, in 1579. (See JE, Vol. XII, p. 397). In the introduction, the author takes up the perennial question of authorship, and whether Daniel is to be considered a full-fledged prophet or merely a divinely inspired dreamer