Nishmath Chaim ["The Breath of Life": on the immortality of the soul]

Estimate: $300–$400
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL

printer

L[eopold] Schneeweiss

Place

Leipzig

Publication

1862

Description

Frontispiece likeness of Author (loose). Scholarly marginalia in modern Aschkenazic cursive hand

references

Vinograd, Leipzig 190

summary

Our edition of this classic work by Menasseh is prefaced by a lengthy biography of the Rabbi. Menasseh's erudition in Nishmath Chaim is simply breathtaking. Not only is he thoroughly familiar with Rabbinic sources, but totally conversant with ancient Greek and Roman authors

pp. xx; ff. 107. Browned throughout. Contemporary boards. 4to

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