ABBA MARI MOSES BEN JOSEPH OF LUNEL (DON ASTRUC). Minchath Kena'oth ["Offering of Zealousness": anti-Maimonidean polemic]. Mordechai Leib Bisliches (Ed.)

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author

(PHILOSOPHY).

printer

Anton Endlen von Schmid

Place

Pressburg

Publication

1838

Description

FIRST EDITION. With Haskamah of R. Moses Sofer of Pressburg (Chatham Sofer). The Leon Roth copy

references

Vinograd, Pressburg 31

summary

A work essential to an understanding of the historical developments and underlying philosophic issues of the Second Maimonidean Controversy, in which several Provencal rabbis (including our own author) importuned R. Solomon ben Abraham ibn Adret (Rashb"a) of Barcelona, Catalonia, to forbid the study of Maimonides' philosophic work to persons under the age of twenty-five.

pp. 144, 149-180, 182-185. Mispaginated by printer but complete. Light underscoring in pencil. Contemporary cloth. 8vo

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