Segunda parte del Conciliador, o De la conviniencia de los lugares de la S. Escriptura, que repugnantes entre si parecen

MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL

Nicolaus de Ravesteyn

Amsterdam

1641

First edition of Volume II. Spanish text. On title, printer's mark of Menaseh ben Israel (Yaari, no. 58). Initial letter richly historiated.

Kayserling, p. 69; Treasures from the Library Ets Haim / Livraria Montezinos (1980), no. 87

Menasseh’s magnum opus, the Conciliador, assured its author a place of prominence within Amsterdam’s Jewish community. Written with a Marrano readership in mind, this work presents an insight into Rabbinic Judaism by reconciling seeming discordant passages in the Bible. Ultimately a four-volume work, the third and fourth volumes of the Conciliador were printed in 1650-51. The first volume appeared in 1632