Psalms). Tehillim. Translated into Persian in Hebrew letters by Mirza Nurallah.

Estimate: $800–$1,200
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(BIBLE, Hebrew.

printer

British Foreign Bible Society

Place

London

Publication

1895

references

Darlow and Moule no. 7367.

summary

Sponsored by the Protestant Church’s British and Foreign Bible Society, Mirza Nurallah a Jewish convert to Christianity from Teheran prepared this Tehillim as a way of seducing the Jews, via their native language, toward the tenents of Christian belief. See L. Finkelstein, The Jews (1949) p. 853.

pp. 279. Some light wear. Original boards, stained. 8vo.

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